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
Who wrote “For what wears out…strongest souls.”?
Matthew Arnold
Sordello
R. Browning
Principles of Political Economy
John Stuart Mill
Aurora Leigh
E. B. Browning
New Poems
C. Rossetti
Poems by Two Brothers
Lord Tennyson
Far From the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
The public wanted poems that:
Had something to teach
Literature and Dogma
M. Arnold
The Kangaroo
D. H. Lawrence
Commonplace
C. Rossetti
Maud
Lord Tennyson
Wives and Daughters
E. Gaskell
Ballads and Sonnets
D. G. Rossetti
“The Custody Act” in 1839:
Women could ask for custody of children under 7
The “Catholic” side of the Church, tradition, ritual, authority:
The High Church
London grew from two million to…
Six and a half million
