Victorian Age (27711)

The Victorian Age

(1830-1901)

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1 Jon Roi Malabuyoc

Classe V-B

A.S. 2010-2011

Queen Victoria

The Victorian Age is named

• after Queen Victoria who Jon Roi

reigned over Britain from

20th June 1837 until her

death on 22nd January 1901.

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Reforms

Ten-hours’ Act (1847)

Adoption of the famous Mines Act (1862)

English week Malabuyoc

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Reforms Roi

Public Health Act (1875)

Education Acts (1870-1876)

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Victorianism

«V»

The exemplary lifestyle of the Queen with a

• decent code of behaviour was followed by the Malabuyoc

middle class who shared Queen’s religious and

moral view. Jon

Roi

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Victorian literature

Victorian literature Malabuyoc

Early Victorian Late Victorian Jon

Mid-Victorian Roi

Charles Dickens Oscar Wilde

Emily Bronte

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Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens is

• one of the most

important novelists of Malabuyoc

the Victorian era. He

gave lots of concern Jon

for the social reform Roi

of his time and wrote

them down in his

novels.

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Emily Bronte

Emily Bronte belonged to

• the second period: she and Jon

her sisters wrote Roi

imaginative romantic

novels. Her masterpiece

was Wuthering Heights

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Wuthering Heights

The story is about two

• children, Heathcliff and

Catherine, who grew up Malabuyoc

together. Their egoism and

love destroyed both and Jon

affected everyone around Roi

them.

The analysis of a passion such as

never appeared before in Victorian

literature, made the novel to receive

mixed reviews by critics, but now is

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considered a classic of English literature.