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THE VICTORIAN AGE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Opium Wars (1839-1842) (1856-1860)
      - Boer Wars (1880-1881)(1899-1902)
      - Crimean War (1853-56)
- - - - family as a patriarchal unit
      - chastity
        
        fallen women
        
        prudery
- - - - workhouses
- - - - The setting chosen by most Victorian novelists was the city
    - - Many novels were written by women
    - - realistic characters that included also children
    - - omniscient narrator
    - - They described society as they saw it. Their aim was to make the readers aware of social injustices
    - - The plot was long and often complicated by subplots.
    - - It traced the life of the protagonist from infancy to early adulthood. The main concern of these novels was the relation of the individual to society,