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When I inform you that Mrs. Carrie Ryder is one of my most intimate friends and constant correspondent, you will not again request a list of your misdoings. If you consider your course of conduct in deceiving your uncle, endeavoring to ruin your young cousin Charles, and attempting to elope with an heiress of fifteen, honorable, I can only say ...
The era can also be understood in a more extensive sense—the 'long Victorian era'—as a period that possessed sensibilities and characteristics distinct from the periods adjacent to it, [note 1] in which case it is sometimes dated to begin before Victoria's accession—typically from the passage of or agitation for (during the 1830s) the ...
In the Victorian era, the novel became the leading literary genre in English. English writing from this era reflects the major transformations in most aspects of English life, from scientific, economic, and technological advances to changes in class structures and the role of religion in society. [ 2 ]
The Victorian Studies Reader (2007) 467pp; articles and excerpts by scholars excerpts and text search; Bright, J. Franck. A History of England. Period 4: Growth of Democracy: Victoria 1837–1880 (1902) online 608pp; highly detailed older political narrative A History of England: Period V. Imperial Reaction, Victoria, 1880‒1901 (1904) online
Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian [1] [2]), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. [3]
She was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University and the University of East Anglia (UEA); [2] her doctorate in Victorian history [3] was developed into her first book, The Victorian Governess. She is the Director of Creative Non-Fiction at the University of East Anglia, [4] [5]
A Victorian Childhood by Beryl Williams – Portrait of a Gypsy Traveller family and of a Funfair family. Focus: Background history of Travelling people in the Victorian period from a child's viewpoint. The Romano Drom Song Book by Denise Stanley & Roswy Burke – Traditional songs and ballads.