I have just stumbled onto a very rich blog called A Victorian Passage Into Time. To date the blog contains 129 articles on a broad range of topics, including much on Victorian furniture and household furnishings in general.
Here’s a quote from the blog’s note of welcome: “Most of our growing archive of Victorian Era subjects are taken directly from the 19th century sources to achieve a closer look into how our ancestors really lived.” That’s good news! Needless to say, I plan to spend some time over there and to post on the articles that’ll interest us here at The Antique Victorian Furniture Blog. At a glance, it looks like there are quite a few.
In the meantime, here’s the link if you’d like to follow this passage back into Victorian times yourself.