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LITT UK-4-
The Victorian Age
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reign of queen victoria | (1837 - 1901) saw britain become a global superpower. |
| Britain became a global superpower | peace allowed both scientific and technological progress, the industrial revolution began in britain. |
| Working classes of Victorian britain | often lived in slums. infant mortality |
| Factory acts | were introduced to limit child labour and provide education. |
| Communist ideology. | led by the poverty and terrible living conditions of the working classes in england. |
| Karl Marx | (1848) ”the communist manifesto” in london. |
| Friedrich Engels | published “the condition of the working class in England in 1845”. |
| Labour party | 1900. |
| Slavery/ Empire | 17th to early 19th Britain's empire-based trade was dependent on slavery. |
| Slavery/ industrial revolution | became less important. official abolition of slavery in 1807. |
| British east india company | a private army that was twice the size of the british army. In effect, they ruled India (1757 - 1858). |
| British raj | 1858 to 1947 when the government took over. |
| Three types of imperial power | colony / protectorate / influence. |
| Egypt | suez canal that facilitated trade (protectorate). |
| China. | political influence (informal empire). |
| ‘Light of civilization’ in India | a series of famines that were either created or exacerbated by British rulers. 60 million deaths in 200 years. |
| Philanthropy | charitable works to help alleviate poverty became very popular in the Victorian age. |
| Methodists and quakers | influence of nonconformist and evangelical christian sects. Led projects of moral improvement. |
| Agnostics and freethinkers | John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, George Eliot. |
| Charles Darwin’s on the origin of species | (1859) advanced the theory of evolution and challenged biblical views. |
| Respectability | sex was not a polite topic of conversation. |
| Women | ‘the angel in the house’. the ‘different spheres’ ideology. |
| Queen Victoria's son | ‘Bertie’ (later to become Edward VII) was a play-boy who had a bespoke sex-chair made for himself. |
| Early feminist group | the langham place circle, progress in the early feminist movement. |
| Married women's property act | (1882) no longer completely helpless could own something. |
| The first feminist magazine | Bessie Rayner Parkes, “the English woman’s journal”. |
| Victorian poetry | strong passions, medieval settings, supernatural, linked to the pre-raphaelite painter. |
| Lord Alfred Tennyson | ‘the lady of shalott’. |
| Golden age of the novel | Charles Dickens, William Makepeace, George Eliot , Elizabeth Gaskell. |
| Increased popularity of novels | maturing of the genre ; increased literacy (particularly women) ; periodicals and magazines that published serial novels. |
| ‘victorian cult of death’. | Queen Victoria, lost her beloved husband, ‘the widow of Windsor’. |
| Mourning jewelry | lockets in which one put a lock of the dead person’s hair. |
| Victorian gothic horror novels | set in contemporary society. horror of the human body and scientific progress. |
| Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein | (1818) precursor of Victorian gothic horror. |
| Robert Louis Stevenson's | (1886) “the strange case of dr.jekyll and mr. hyde”. |
| Bram Stoker | (1897) Dracula fears of medical practice, immigration and sexually transmitted diseases. |
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Samhuigyug
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