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Victorian England

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Document George Elliot on Victorian Women's Fiction

Some key extracts from Eliot's work

Victorian England, victorian history, Victorian Culture, George Eliot, Women's writing view
Document Coursework Handbook

Includes questions, documents and a bibliography.

19th century, Victorian, Victorian England, Queen Victoria, Victorian Culture view
Document Key Themes: Image & Art

Some key themes from this unit

Victorian Culture, Victorian England, victorian history, 19th century, Painting view
Document Some Key Dates

Some key dates to give you a framework!

Nineteenth century, British history, Victorian, Queen Victoria, Victorian England view
Document Victoria and her Prime Ministers

Brief extracts from the Queen's diaries, commenting on her relationship with key Prime Ministers

Nineteenth century, Queen Victoria, victorian history, disraeli, gladstone, Victorian England view
Document Fragile Masculinity: an exploration into the construction of bourgeois male identity in 1850s London by Jessica Greaves

This article considers the first scene of the painting Past and Present (Augustus Egg, 1858) alongside a contemporary advertisement for Walter...

Victorian England, 19th century view
Document Crime & Respectability

Extracts from a House of Commons Committee meeting investigating crime and it's causes

Victorian England, Nineteenth century, Victorian Culture, victorian history, Crime view
Document Sanitation & the Great Stink

Extracts from two contemporary articles on the  problem of London's sanitation - including a rather satirical view from Dickens!

Victorian Culture, Victorian England, victorian history, Nineteenth century, Charles Dickens view
Document Key Themes Gender & Sexuality

Some key themes from this unit

Queen Victoria, victorian history, Victorian England, Victorian Culture, Nineteenth-century view
Document Suburban population growth

A statistical overview of suburban population growth

Victorian Culture, Victorian England, victorian history, 19th century, Population growth view
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