The Victorian Age Flashcards
Women could work as a:
Governess
Typical Victorian terms: submissive, earnest, morality, domestic property. Name a term that is not Victorian:
Rebellious
Published under the name Currer Bell:
Charlotte Bronte
“I’ve read with excitement…manner of Childe Harold.” Who wrote this:
William Butler Yeats
Lewis Carroll wrote:
Through the Looking Glass
Universities granted ______ degrees to women
Twelve
Mary Ann Evans
George Eliot
Wrote about fruit and goblins
C. Rossetti
“White Man’s Burden” by Kipling
The Brits moral responsibility to educate the world by colonizing it
“Irish Question” in 1880s
Home Rule for Ireland
Growing awareness to the immense running of the empire (four things):
The Boer War, The Indian Mutiny, The Irish Question, The Jamaica Rebellion
“For despite his fascination…sense of the past.”
Lord Tennyson
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
John Fowles
Far From the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
The Way of All Flesh
Samuel Butler