VICTORIAN ERA

BACKGROUND

• Believed they were living in a time of great change
• The changes were during Queen victoria's long reign (1837-1901)
• This reign was considered the height of political and social stability

WHAT WAS GOING ON

• Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century exspanded
• Created towns,goods,wealth,and jobs for tens of thousands of people

TIMELINE

1846

• Elizebeth Barrett and robert browning elope

1843

• William wordsworth becomes poet laureate

1842

• Nikolai gogol draws attention to the plight of Russian serfs with his comic epic Dead Souls.

1840

• Margaret fuller helps found The Dial , an U.s. transcendentalist journal.

1837-1838

• Charles dickins publishes oliver Twist in periodical form

1832

• First reform bill exstends vote to men who own property

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