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THE VICTORIAN PERIOD. BY:MICHELLE LYN MUELLER. 1832-1901. Had unbounded confidence Living in a time of great change Queen Victoria The empire begun in 17 th and 18 th w ith British interest in India and North America. “Virgin queen”.
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THE VICTORIAN PERIOD BY:MICHELLE LYN MUELLER
1832-1901 • Had unbounded confidence • Living in a time of great change • Queen Victoria • The empire begun in 17th and 18thwith British interest in India and North America
“Virgin queen” • She ruled more than 200 million people living Outside Great Britain • She believed in powerful ideas of authority • Took the thrown of the Anglican church
MAJOR AUTHORS • Credited to writing about child labor • Industrial revolution was created • The Victorians loved the heroic stories of knights • Poetry, sonnets • ROMANTISM Charles dickens Pickwick Papers William Thackeray George Eliot Thomas Hardy
beleifs • Science would often contradict with religion • Charles Darwin natural selection and believed that nature was indeed a creation of god