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4 giorni fa · Matters of religion helped divide the limited mid-Victorian electorate, with the Nonconformists (Dissenters) encouraging, from their local bases, the development of liberalism and with the Anglican churchmen often—but by no means universally—supporting the Conservative Party.
2 giorni fa · During the Victorian Era, literature turned to a more realistic and true presentation of human life and its environment.
4 giorni fa · Charlotte Bronte, English novelist noted for Jane Eyre (1847), a strong narrative of a woman in conflict with her natural desires and social condition. The novel gave new truthfulness to Victorian fiction. She later wrote Shirley (1849) and Villette (1853). Learn more about Bronte’s life and work.
- Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist best known for Jane Eyre (1847), the story of an independent young governess who overcomes hardships while...
- Charlotte Brontë was one of six children. Her two eldest sisters (Maria and Elizabeth) died when she was young. She had a brother named Patrick Bra...
- Her father, Patrick Brontë, was an Anglican clergyman. He moved his family to Haworth amid the Yorkshire moors in 1820. When they weren’t away at s...
- In 1824 Charlotte attended Clergy Daughters’ School in Lancashire. Her experiences there, including harsh discipline and terrible food, influenced...
3 giorni fa · The demands of winning the war required an unparalleled intervention in a running of the economy and in the operations of social life, particularly when the radical Liberal Lloyd George took power in 1916.
4 giorni fa · Royalty continued to visit Salisbury in Victorian times; the Prince Consort and the Prince of Wales to see Stonehenge in 1851, and the Prince of Wales again with his tutor to see the cathedral, Wilton House, and Wardour Castle in 1856; the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia in 1861 and again in 1871, and many royal and ...
3 giorni fa · Based on the statistics, Dickens portrays male hands 4907 times, whereas female hands are mentioned 2181 times. Similarly, male heads are depicted 3260 times, whereas female heads are mentioned...
5 giorni fa · In Bread Winner Professor Emma Griffin weaves together a large number of autobiographical accounts of working-class family life, including many by women, to describe the nature and causes of poverty in 19th and early 20th century Britain.
