The Victorian era, spanning the 18th to 19th centuries, was marked by significant socio-economic and cultural changes. This period saw the rise of the Industrial Revolution, which introduced the railway age and boosted agricultural productivity.
-The railway age
-Agricultural increase
-Feudal Society
-Children work and workers bad conditions
-Free Trade
-Competitive exports
powerful middle-class
-The Conservative and
Liberal politicians
-"Bluestockings" women movement
-The Puritan
-Writers and puritan women
Queen Victoria
Changed the Monarchy
Britain become in urban
The Crimean War
The Boer War
The British gained control of Egypt
Literature Background
-English became a nation of avid novel-readers.
-Theatres were disreputable.
Main writen works
-Victorian novels. -Pickwick Papers
-Under the Greenwood Tree
-Great Expectations
-Wuthering Heights
-Bad Ballads
-The origin of te Spaces (evolution)
-Susan Fenimore Cooper's Rural Hours
Main Authors
-Charles Dickens
-Thomas Hardy
-Robert Browning (1812–89)
-Alfred Tennyson (1809–92)
-The Brontë sisters
-Charles Darwin
-Hemry David Thoreau
Poetry
Gothic
Satiris
Focus
-Money satire
-Human rights
-aving the poor
-Protestanism
-Children literature
