Victorian Period

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Victorian Period

• Queen Victoria took throne in 1837 (at__)
• Long reign, died in 1901 (at 82)
• England became wealthiest nation
• British Empire expansion

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Victorian Period

• Industrial Revolution
• Social economic changes expressed in gradual
  political reforms

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Victorian Period

• Women for suffrage
• Factory Acts
• State supported schools
• Literacy rate increased from 40 to ____ from
  1840-1900.

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Victorian Period

• Paradox of progress
• New ideas discussed debated by large segment of
  society

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Victorian Period

• Decorum Authority
• Powerful middle-class obsessed with . . .
• Censorship of writers no mention of

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Victorian Period

• Decorum powerful ideas about authority
• Victorian private lives
• Women
• Middle-class women expected
• Women had few occupations open to them
• Unmarried women

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Victorian Period

• Intellectual Progress
• Understanding of earth, its creatures natural
  laws
• Industrialization of England

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Victorian Period

• Materialism, secularism, vulgarity, and sheer
  waste
• Trust in transcendental power gave way to
  uncertainty spiritual doubt.

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Victorian Period

• Victorian writing reflects the dangers and
  benefits to rapid industrialization, while
  encouraging readers to examine closely their own
  understanding of the eras progress.
• How is this topic still relevant today?

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