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Topics and Texts

Introduction
Victorian England: An Introduction

Social Issues
Charles Dickens: A London Workhouse
Henry Mayhew: The Life of a Coster Girl
Henry Mayhew: Of the Life of an Orphan Girl, a Street-Seller

The Issue of Gender
Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre, Chapter 26

Education
Charles Dickens: Hard Times, Chapter 1 - 2

Imperialism
Rudyard Kipling: Beyond the Pale
George Orwell: Shooting an Elephant
Rudyard Kipling: White Man's Burden

Victorian Painters ans Paintings

Paintings depicting the gender issue and social matters in the Victorian Age

Ford Maddox Brown: Work (1853-63)
William Holman Hunt: The Awakening Conscience 1853
Augustus Leopold Egg: Past and Present 1858

Internet Resources

If you are looking for background information on topics concering the Victorian Age, this is a good place to start.


The Impact of the Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution
Industrial Might
Victorian Technology I
Victorian Technology II
Britain as Workshop of the World

Working and Living Conditions in Victorian England
Conditions of Life and Labor – An Overview
Poverty and Families in the Victorian Era
London's 'Great Stink' and Victorian Urban Planning
The Workhouse
Children in Victorian England

The Issue of Gender and Family Life
Victorian Family Life
Women in the Victorian Era
Ideals of Womanhood in Victorian Britain
Women’s Work
Children in Victorian England


Children in the Victorian Age

Children in Victorian England

Poverty and Families in the Victorian Era
Child Labour and the Industrial Revolution
Victorian Schools
Victorian Classroom Life: School Reports as Source Material

Victorian Imperialism
The British Empire - An Overview
The British Empire – An Introduction
The British Empire I
The British Empire II

Victorian Science and Technology
Victorian Technology
Victorian Science: An Overview
Industry and Invention
Industrial Might
The Sciences

Victorian Architecture
Victorian Architecture
London Buildings
Victorian London
High Victorian Gothic in England

Victorian Art
The Arts in Victorian Britain
Art in the Victorian Era
The Pre-rephaelites

Victorian Painters and Paintings
Ford Maddox Brown
Augustus Leopold Egg
William Holman Hunt
Edward Burne-Jones
John Everett Millais
Dante Gabriel Rosetti
John William Waterhouse