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Jane Eyre
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| "Although there had been schools dated back as far as the 6th Century many Victorian boys and girls did not have the opportunity of going to school." | Going to School in Victorian Times http://tinyurl.com/kyytwa5 |
| "Children soon learnt to do what the teacher asked, otherwise they would get a rap across the knuckles with a ruler, or a clip around the ears." | The Victorian Teacher http://tinyurl.com/kyytwa5 |
| "For every teacher the most vital piece of equipment was the blackboard and easel." | School Equipment http://tinyurl.com/kyytwa5 |
| "Education in nineteenth-century England was not equal - not between the sexes, and not between the classes." | Victorian England: An Introduction http://tinyurl.com/deu2g |
| "In the early Victorian period disease transmission was largely understood as a matter of inherited susceptibility " | Health and Medicine in the 19th Century http://tinyurl.com/7t9c83c |
| "Bad housing, poor sanitation and overcrowding, that in turn bred epidemic disease, were closely associated with inner-city areas." | Disease in the Victorian city: extended version http://tinyurl.com/l9da3fr |
| "Such diseases as typhus and influenza were both endemic and epidemic: they killed large numbers of both rural and urban dwellers but affected the young and malnourished of the urban slums." | Disease in the Victorian city: extended version http://tinyurl.com/l9da3fr |
| "typhus fever was endemic in London and epidemics occurred in all towns in 1817-1819, 1826-1827 and 1831-1832." | Disease in the Victorian city: extended version http://tinyurl.com/l9da3fr |
| "A very common fate of orphans was adoption. They were often taken in by relatives or neighbors, and even, on occasion, strangers wishing to raise them as their own children." | Orphans in 19th Century Victorian England http://tinyurl.com/p67e8r9 |
| "Girls received less education than boys, were barred from universities, and could obtain only low-paid jobs." | WOMEN'S STATUS IN MID 19TH-CENTURY ENGLAND by Helena Wojtczak |