the victorian period

The Victorian Period

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Events In British Literature Poetry

1833- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, begins writing long poem In Memoriam

1850- Elizabeth Barrett Browning publishes love poems Sonnets from the Portuguese

1868- Gerard Manley Hopkins enters Jesuit religious order and stops writing

poetry

1875- Hopkins resumes writing poetry

Other Literature1843- Charles Dickens publishes short novel A Christmas Carol1847- Charlotte Brontë publishes Jane Eyre; sister Emily publishes Wuthering Heights1860- Dickens publishes first magazine installment of Great Expectations1861- George Eliot publishes Silas Marner1865- Lewis Carroll publishes Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland1883- Robert Louis Stevenson publishes adventure novel Treasure Island1887- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes A Study in Scarlet, introducing detective Sherlock Holmes1891- Thomas Hardy publishes Tess of the D’Urbervilles; Oscar Wilde’s novel, A Picture of Dorian Gray, shocks Victorian England with its theme of corruption of wealth1895- H.G. Wells publishes landmark science fiction novel The Time Machine 1901-Kipling publishes novel Kim, detailing life in India

Events in Britain 1833- Factory Act bans factory work for

children under nine; slavery abolished in British Empire.

1837- William IV dies and is succeeded by 18 yr old niece Victoria, ushering in Britain’s age of greatest prosperity.

1842- Opium War with china settled, with Britain claiming Hong Kong.

1845- Irish potato famine begins, killing more than a million people. (to 1851)

1848- University of London grants admission to women students.

Opium War-1842 Prince Albert

Crimean War; in which Britain, Turkey, France, and Austria fight Russia.1859- Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.1860- Florence Nightingale founds school for nurses.1861- Prince Albert Dies.1867- Reform Bill doubles number of voters by including working-class men.1870- Local governments establish public schools; Married Women’s Act gives women economical rights.

Events In The World Political

•1848 - Nationalist uprisings in EU, Marx/Engels publish Communist Manifesto

• 1884 - Berlin Conference to Divide Africa between EU nations

Social/Economic advances

•1844 - First Long Distance Telegraph (Sam Morse)

•1869 - Suez Canal opens

•1874 - Graham Bell invents Telephone

•1879 - Edison's practical light bulb

•1896 - First Olympic Games since old Greek city-states 2k years ago

Independence/Rights movements

•Taiping Rebellion in China in 1850-1864 to overthrow Qing Dynasty

•1861 - Civil War in the United States – Alexander II frees serfs in Russia

•1876 - Independent Korea

•1898 - Spanish – American War from American interventions in Spanish Philippines and Cuban Independence