The Victorian Period

1. The Victorian Period Sasha ; Priit ; Tessa

2. Events In British Literature Other Literature 1843-Charles Dickens publishes short novel A Christmas Carol 1847- Charlotte Brontë publishes Jane Eyre; sister Emily publishes Wuthering Heights 1860- Dickens publishes first magazine installment of Great Expectations 1861- George Eliot publishes Silas Marner 1865- Lewis Carroll publishes Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 1883- Robert Louis Stevenson publishes adventure novel Treasure Island 1887- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes A Study in Scarlet, introducing detective Sherlock Holmes 1891- 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 wealth 1895- H.G. Wells publishes landmark science fiction novel The Time Machine 1901-Kipling publishes novel Kim, detailing life in India 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

3. Events in Britain • 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. Opium War-1842 Prince Albert • 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.

4. Events In The World • Political • 1848 - Nationalist uprisings in EU, Marx/Engels publish Communist Manifesto • 1884 - Berlin Conference to Divide Africa between EU nations • 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 • 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