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The Victorian Church (2 vol 1966), covers all denominations online; Clark, G. Kitson The making of Victorian England (1963). online; Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, eds. The encyclopedia of the Victorian world: a reader's companion to the people, places, events, and everyday life of the Victorian era (Henry Holt, 1996) online
The Marxist intellectual Walter Benjamin connected Victorian morality to the rise of the bourgeoisie. Benjamin alleged that the shopping culture of the petite bourgeoisie established the sitting room as the centre of personal and family life; as such, the English bourgeois culture is a sitting-room culture of prestige through conspicuous ...
Hunger and poor diet was a common aspect of life across the UK in the Victorian period, especially in the 1840s, but the mass starvation seen in the Great Famine in Ireland was unique. [87] [85] Levels of poverty fell significantly during the 19th century from as much as two thirds of the population in 1800 to less than a third by 1901. However ...
Victorian novels were often quite long, with complicated plots (often centered on marriages) and many characters. #22 Union Soldier With His Family Posing In A Photo. Wife And 2 Daughters. Circa 1860s
The 1940s House – a family "living" through the Second World War. The Edwardian Country House; Regency House Party; Coal House – a 1920s Welsh mining community; Coal House at war – a 1944 Welsh mining community; Victorian Slum House – London slum life during Victorian era; The 1900 Island – a 1900 fishing village in Anglesey [4]
For most of the Victorian era, people thought it was normal for men and women to be treated differently, and judged by different standards. For most of the Victorian era, people thought it was ...
The companions after the Second World War are generally elderly women who grew up in Victorian times without the expectation of having to provide for themselves, but who find themselves impoverished due to the decline of the fortunes of many once well-to-do families as a result of the Great Depression and the investment losses incurred during ...
In Star Trek: Voyager, Captain Kathryn Janeway spends recreation time playing the role of a governess, Lucille Davenport, on the holodeck; The Victorian version of Clara Oswald in the 2012 Doctor Who Christmas special The Snowmen was a governess to Captain Latimer's children.