Reading and Writing Skills for Students of Literature in English: The

Victorian Period

Enric Monforte

Jacqueline Hurtley

Bill Phillips

The Victorian Period

Queen Victoria (1819-1901)

http://www.general-anaesthesia.com/images/queen-victoria.html

Queen Victoria (r.1837-1901)

http://midnightramblin.wordpress.com

The British Empire

http://www.bbc.co.uk

http://

The British Empire

http://www.learning-connections.co.uk/curric/cur_pri/victorians/handson/answers/hands_1.html

The British Empire

http://www.spacebob.us/pages/articles/assets/british_empire.jpg

James Watt (1736-1819)

http://www.general-anaesthesia.com/images/james-watt.html

The industrial revolution:the steam railways

http://cultureofsoccer.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/steam_train.jpg

http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/transsea.htm

The industrial revolution:the steam ships

http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/transsea.htm

Gustave Doré and Blanchard Jerrold,

Ludgate Hill-A block in the Street

(1872)

London in the Early

Nineteenth Century

http://commons.wikimedia.org

London

Slum Neighbourhood in London

by Gustave Doré

http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/IndustRev/

The Great Exhibition

at the Crystal Palace(1851)

The Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace

http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/111206/images/lg_122206dickinson004.jpg

Crystal Palace by Childe Hassam

http://www.fineart-china.com/oil%20painting%20artist/Childe%20Hassam.html

Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

‘I have called this principle,

by which each slight variation,

if useful, is preserved, by the

term Natural Selection’

Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859)

http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/monografia/darwin/

Trade Unions

The Match Girlsmarch on Parliament(1888)

http://marxists.anu.edu.au/subject/britain/index.htm

Graham Bell (1847-1922)

Telephone (1876)

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1876

_Bell_Speaking_into_Telepho

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The Independent Labour Party

Keir Hardy, founder of the Independent Labour Party (1893)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com