1. The Victorian Age The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Norton E

2. The Young Victoria http://www. imdb
Queen Victoria
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3. Queen Victoria 1837 – 1901
Responsible for bringing England to its highest point
John Stuart Mill stated “we are living in an age of transition”
Became the center of Influence in the world
England transformed into an Industrial Center with, resources of steam power, railways, iron ships, looms, and printing presses
In literature, the Victorian period was a “richly complex example of a society struggling with the issues and problems we identify with modernism”

4. The Early Period 1830-48 A Time of Troubles
Time of economic distress
Reform Bill 1832 – right to vote for all males owning property worth 10 pounds
Included low middle classes but not working class
Reform Bill – beginning of new age, economic gain
1837 – fall from prosperity, series of bad harvest, unemployment
Corn Laws –refers to wheat and other grains—law regulated tariffs on imported products
1846 Corn Laws repealed, system of free trade initiated

5. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“The Cry of the Children “ (1843)
Addresses the horrifying conditions of child labor.
Children five to twelve years old working in the coal mines.
Owners of mine and factories working under the “economic theory of laissez-faire, which assumed that unregulated working conditions would ultimately benefit everyone.

6. George Sand, French Novelist
Aurore Lucile Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant
(1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pseudonym George Sand
considered a feminist authored literary and political criticism.
Her novels:
Valentine
Indiana 1838
Lelia 1833
Mauprat 1837
Consuelo

7. The Mid victorian Age (1848 – 70)
Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert encouraged free trade
Factory Act insured child labor was regulated limiting hours and enforcing improved working conditions
Prince Albert opened the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, giant glass greenhouse with exhibits of modern industry and science
Church Divided into 3 major divisions: Evangelicals, Low Church and High Church
Darwin, The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man

8. The Late Period (1870-1901) Decay of Victorian Values
considered the Jubilee years – time of serenity and security
London – center of civilization
Proliferation in commodities, inventions, products that were changing into a more modern society
1867, new Reform Bill extending the right to vote to working classes
Development of trade unions

9. Role of Women Reform bills gave men right to vote, but not women
Educational and employment opportunities still limited
Woman’s Question debates on women’s roles ignited
Custody Act of 1839
The Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857
1848 – establishment of first women’s college in London
Lower classes of women worked in factories

10. Alfred Lord Tennyson (1109-1112)
Tennyson’s home
Farringford, in the village of Freshwater, the Isle of Wright
Alfred Lord Tennyson with his wife Emily and sons: Arthur Hallam and Lionel

11. Alfred Lord Tennyson "Tears Idle Tears" (1135-1136)
Poetry invoked visual impression with emotions
Creating a picture
Beautiful cadences
Alliteration
Vowel sound
“Tone becomes the sign of the feeling” (997)

12. Sarah Stickney Ellis The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits
Wrote series of books for improving women’s duties

13. George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) from "Silly Novels by Lady Novelist"
Criticized trivial and ridiculous plots written by some women
Praised the realism of some
novels
Emphasis placed on realistic
story telling.
Her Novels:
Silas Marner (1861)
Adam Bede (1859)
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
Daniel Deronda (1876)

14. Charlotte, Emily, Anne Bronte
Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
Anne Bronte –
Pseudonyms Acton, Currer & Ellis Bell