• Queen Victoria

• Took the thrown at 18

• Ruled for 63 years (now the second longest monarch)

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"The sun never sets on the Brisith Empire"

Growth and Change

• Great Exibition of 1851

• ​Materialsim

• ​Downside of Progress - Child Labor, Unemployment, Potato Famine

• 1833 - Parliament abolished slavery

• Loads of other reforms​

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"Use your loaf"​

Progess, Problems, and Reform

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• ​Origin of Species - 1859

• Natural Selection

• Evolution

• Sparked debate!

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“I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.”

Charles Darwin

• New Zeland - 1840

• Hong Kong - 1842

• India - Complete control 1858

• Gladstone vs. Disraeli

• Rudyard Kipling - Supporter of British Expansion​

“We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”

British Imperialism

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• Robert Browning

• Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• Elizabeth Barret​

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"Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

​Influence of Romanticism

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• Charles Dickens

• George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

• Emily Brontë

• Charlotte Brontë​

• Penny Dreadfuls​ & Shilling Shockers

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”

Realism in Fiction

• Expense of publishing

• Enticing readers to buy the next part

• The first part would pay for the next part

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Triple Decker & The Serial

Drawing-room comedies (The Importance of Being Earnest)

A Picture of Dorian Grey

Oscar Wilde

Sherlock Holmes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The father of Sci-Fi

The Time Machine

War of the Worlds

H.G. Wells

Treasure Island

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson