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The Victorian Era:
5 most relevant facts of the Victorian Period:
The Victorian” era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria’s reign from 1837 until her death in 1901.
It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined culture, great advancements in
technology, and national self-confidence for Britain.
During the Victorian age, Britain was the world most powerful nation .
By the end of Victorian reign, the British empire extended over about one-fifth of the earth surface. Victorian England saw great expansion of wealth, power, and culture.
But as Victorian England was a time of great ambition and grandeur, it was also a time of misery, squalor, and urban ugliness.
5 important facts of the Victorian Literature:
Novels: dominant literary form; “social problem” novel, “domestic” novel.
Poetry: influenced by the Romantic period; dramatic monologue: a lyric poem in the voice of a speaker who is not the poet.
Drama: frivolous, romantic, witty; mocked contemporary values (satirical).
Non-fiction: essays, criticism, history, biography, newspapers, and magazines
Some works of literature protested the grim reality of the industrial age.
5 most relevant writers of the Victorian age:
Famous novelists from this period include Charles Dickens
William Makepeace Thackeray
The Three Brontë sisters
George Eliot
Thomas Hardy
The most important literary work of the Victorian age:
The social and cultural background of the period has had a deep impact on the literature of the Victorian period.
Some works of literature protested the grim reality of the industrial age. Depicting the deplorable conditions in factories and mines, the plight of child labor, the discrimination against women, and other social issues, such literary works were a means of social reform.
Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton was one of the first novels to warn against the problems of industrialization.
Charles Dickens’ works Oliver Twist and Hard Times treated the themes of child abuse, poverty, urban squalor, crime, and corrupt educational systems.
Jane Eyre. This timeless novel written by Charlotte Brontë, one of the acclaimed Brontë Sisters, whose catalogue of works can be found in The Brontë Sisters by Walter E.
