The Victorian Age 18321901

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The Victorian Age1832-1901

• Crated By
• Kate and Jessica

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History of the Time

• 1837-Victoria is crowned queen
• 1840- Upper and Lower Canada are united/ Queen
  Victoria marries Prince Albert
• 1841-Hong Kong comes under British sovereignty
• 1842-Boers set up Orange Fee State in South
  Africa
• 1845-Failure of the potato crop causes famine in
  Ireland
• 1854-England enters the Crimean War
• 1859-Work begins on Suez Canal in Egypt
• 1861-Prince Albert dies
• 1865-Last Confederate troops surrender in
  American Civil War
• 1868-Rivals Gladstone and Disraeli become
  Parliament leaders
• 1869-Mohandas Gandhi is born in India
• 1871-French are defeated in Franco-Prussian War
• 1877-Queen Victoria is proclaimed Empress of
  India
• 1889-Pedro the second abdicates Brazil
  proclaimed a republic
• 1899-The Boer War in South Africa begins
• 1900-Boxer Rebellion against foreign influence
  erupts in China

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Recurring Themes

• Emotional responses are the responses of the
  heart. Pain, joy, anxiety, sorrow, relief,
  exuberance---these are only a few of the
  responses of our hearts as we experience life.
  The selections in this Theme probe the nature and
  depth of emotional response and, as a whole, they
  celebrate the vastness of human sensibility.
  (Page 779)

• The flash of moonlight on water the music of a
  friends laughter the scent of pine in the
  mountains. Impressions flow by us in a stream
  some of them stick, some eventually fade away. In
  this theme, writers consider the impressions that
  last, that mark us deeply, and that make us who
  we are. (Page 831)

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Authors

• Charles Dickinson (Hard Times)
• George Eliot (Middlemarch A Study of Provincial
  Life)
• Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre)
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson (In Memoriam A.H.H. or
  Ulysses)
• E.B. Browning-Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Sonnet
  43)
• Edna St. Vincent Millay (Love Is Not All It Is
  Not Meat nor Drink)
• Robert Browning (My Last Duchess and Porphyrias
  Lover)
• Matthew Arnold (Dover Beach)
• Lewis Carroll (Jabberwocky)
• Thomas Hardy (The Man He Killed
• Manley Hopkins (Pied Beauty)
• Gabriela Mistral (Time)
• A.E. Housman (To an Athlete Dying Young)
• Rudyard Kipling (Miss Youghals Sais)

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