The Victorian Age Flashcards

0
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Women could work as a:

A

Governess

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Typical Victorian terms: submissive, earnest, morality, domestic property. Name a term that is not Victorian:

A

Rebellious

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2
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Published under the name Currer Bell:

A

Charlotte Bronte

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3
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“I’ve read with excitement…manner of Childe Harold.” Who wrote this:

A

William Butler Yeats

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4
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Lewis Carroll wrote:

A

Through the Looking Glass

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5
Q

Universities granted ______ degrees to women

A

Twelve

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6
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Mary Ann Evans

A

George Eliot

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7
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Wrote about fruit and goblins

A

C. Rossetti

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8
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“White Man’s Burden” by Kipling

A

The Brits moral responsibility to educate the world by colonizing it

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9
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“Irish Question” in 1880s

A

Home Rule for Ireland

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10
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Growing awareness to the immense running of the empire (four things):

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The Boer War, The Indian Mutiny, The Irish Question, The Jamaica Rebellion

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11
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“For despite his fascination…sense of the past.”

A

Lord Tennyson

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12
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The French Lieutenant’s Woman

A

John Fowles

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13
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Far From the Madding Crowd

A

Thomas Hardy

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14
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The Way of All Flesh

A

Samuel Butler

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15
Q

Who wrote “For what wears out…strongest souls.”?

A

Matthew Arnold

16
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Sordello

A

R. Browning

17
Q

Principles of Political Economy

A

John Stuart Mill

18
Q

Aurora Leigh

A

E. B. Browning

19
Q

New Poems

A

C. Rossetti

20
Q

Poems by Two Brothers

A

Lord Tennyson

21
Q

Far From the Madding Crowd

A

Thomas Hardy

22
Q

The public wanted poems that:

A

Had something to teach

23
Q

Literature and Dogma

A

M. Arnold

24
Q

The Kangaroo

A

D. H. Lawrence

25
Q

Commonplace

A

C. Rossetti

26
Q

Maud

A

Lord Tennyson

27
Q

Wives and Daughters

A

E. Gaskell

28
Q

Ballads and Sonnets

A

D. G. Rossetti

29
Q

“The Custody Act” in 1839:

A

Women could ask for custody of children under 7

30
Q

The “Catholic” side of the Church, tradition, ritual, authority:

A

The High Church

31
Q

London grew from two million to…

A

Six and a half million