 Who sat on throne  Married her cousin Prince Albert  She was hearted broken after his death  She died at 80 years of age  Queen Victoria

 The economies of Europe expanded  Improvement to the steam engine technology  Global economy/huge amounts of wealth were created  Solely to the middle class  New market economy favored industry over agriculture  Large numbers of farmers left.  Seeking work in factories, cities were overwhelmed

 The majority of writers spoke out  Essayist Thomas Carlyle  Elizabeth Barret-Browings poet produce The Cry of the children  Novelist Charles Dickens  Novelist & essayist focused on realities & directly addressed the social problems rather than fancy

 Romantic period poetry was the dominant genre  Novels was the most important in Victorian period  William Thackeray, Vanity Fair, satirical view  Anne, Charlotte, Emily-Wuthering Heights example of gothic Romanticism  Thomas Hardy, forerunner for Modernist Movement  Children literature became growth industry  Comic verse /Victorian Era/Oscar Wilde  Science, philosophy Charles Darwin  Philosophical writings John Stuart Mill  Nature writing/ Alfred Lord Tennyson  Serial publication in magazines/journals became more popular

 English Novelist and Poet  Born 1816 in Thornton Yorkshire  Parents: Maria & Patrick Bronte  Raise with 5 Siblings: Maria, Elizabeth, Emily, Anne, and Branwell  1820 family moved to the village of Haworth  Mother died of Cancer

 Mr. Bronte sent daughters to the Clergy Daughters’ School  School affected her health  Two sisters died  Childhood imaginations  Charlotte continued her education  1833 She wrote The Green Dwarf  1835/38 She returned as a teacher  1839 A position as governess  1842 traveled to Brussels to enroll at boarding school  1844 She tried to open own school but it failed

 May 1846 Charlotte, Emily, Anne published a collection of poetry  Charlotte’s first manuscript The Professor  1847 Jane Eyre was published  1848 Charlotte began to work second manuscript Shirley/later published 1849  Third novel last published in her life time Villette 1853

 Before publication of Vilette she received a proposal from Arthur Bell Nichols  She initially turn him down & her father objected  Jan 1854 she accepted persuaded by friend Elizabeth, gained fathers approval, April married in June.  Charlotte became pregnant soon after & died with unborn child March 31,1855 age of 38

 Charlotte’s first novel The Professor was published posthumously 1857  Emma published posthumously 1860