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

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Reading and Writing Skills for Students of
Literature in English The Victorian Period

• Enric Monforte
• Jacqueline Hurtley
• Bill Phillips

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The Victorian Period
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Queen Victoria (1819-1901)
http//www.general-anaesthesia.com/images/queen-vi
ctoria.html
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Queen Victoria (r.1837-1901)
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The British Empire
http//www.bbc.co.uk
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The British Empire
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http//www.learning-connections.co.uk/curric/cur_p
ri/victorians/handson/answers/hands_1.html
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The British Empire
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sh_empire.jpg
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James Watt (1736-1819)
http//www.general-anaesthesia.com/images/james-wa
tt.html
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The industrial revolutionthe steam railways
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/08/steam_train.jpg
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http//www.cottontimes.co.uk/transsea.htm
The industrial revolutionthe steam ships
http//www.cottontimes.co.uk/transsea.htm
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Gustave Doré and Blanchard Jerrold, Ludgate
Hill-A block in the Street(1872)
London in the Early Nineteenth Century
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London
Slum Neighbourhood in London by Gustave Doré
http//score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/IndustRev/
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The Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace(1851)
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The Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace
http//www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/11
1206/images/lg_122206dickinson004.jpg
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Crystal Palace by Childe Hassam
http//www.fineart-china.com/oil20painting20arti
st/Childe20Hassam.html
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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/

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Trade Unions
The Match Girls march on Parliament (1888)
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tm
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Graham Bell (1847-1922)
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peaking_into_Telephone.jpg

• Telephone (1876)

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