The Victorians 1837-1901. Historical Background The Days of the Young Queen She was eighteen when she came to the throne. She ruled from 1837 to 1901.

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The Victorians

Historical Background The Days of the Young Queen She was eighteen when she came to the throne. She ruled from 1837 to England faced with high taxes and the need for improving conditions for workers. The right to vote was extended to all male taxpayers. The slogan The greatest happiness for the greates Number.

Middle class families became purchasers of art objects and books. Working hours were shortened and conditions were improved. Florence Nightingale laid the foundation for the stablished Red Cross

Dickens prode his geneartion to social reform. There was a remarkable dvance in science and and invention (magnetism, electricity, and preventive medicine) Scientific discoveries were against some people religious beliefs

A re-examination of education in general:free elementary schooling was open to every child. There was free intercourse with the world at large (China, Japan, Autralia, India, Canada, Egypt, South Africa) The Crystal Palace was witness of a Great World Exhibition

Victorian Literature Victorians believed that the world and its inhabitants were constantly changing. Writers tended to make the characters they created gradually improve as the result of courage and self-sacrifice, or grow worse because of selfishness and sin

Though much of Victorian literature is optimistic, the latter literature frequently expresses pessimism. A stress in the importance of law, order, and self-control.

The Novel Charles Dickens Defended the poor and the lowly against injusticies which he attributed to the rich and the proud. His main works:The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, and David Copperfield.

Bronte sisters Currel, Ellis, and Acton Bell pseudonyms used by Jane, Charlotte, and Emly Bronte. They wrote Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Agnes Grey, respectively. These three novels are romantic and realistic.

George Elliot Mary Ann Evans was her real name. She portrayed the life of small central England communities. Her purpose was to emphasize the importance of duty and of the great part that individual character plays in human life. Her works:Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner.

George Meredith He was a poet and a novelist. He went behind the outward actions of his characters to get at their hidden motives. In The Egoist, published in 1879, he applies some of his theories of comedy in one of his most enduring novels.The Egoist

Thomas Hardy Distinguished as a poet and writer of short stories, he is probably best known as a writer. His work reflects the pessimism and doubt that found expression in much late Victorian lterature.

Robert Louis Stevenson He used threadbare themes of romantic storytelling, such as pirates and buried treasures.

Charles Dickens Dickens's writing style is florid and poetic, with a strong comic touch. His satires of British aristocratic snobbery—he calls one character the "Noble Refrigerator"—are often popular satires

Novels by Dickens The Adventures of Oliver Twist A Christmas Carol David Copperfield A Tale of Two Cities

Jane Austen She was an English novelist whose realism, biting social commentary and masterful use of free indirect speech, burlesque, and irony have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English Literature.

Novels Sense and Sensibility (1811) Pride and Prejudice (1813) Mansfield Park (1814) Emma (1815) Northanger Abbey (1817) (posthumous) Persuasion (1817) (posthumous)