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Victorian literature is English literature during the reign of Queen Victoria. In the Victorian era, the novel became the leading literary genre in English. English writing from this era reflects the
'Carlyle and Tennyson talked and smoked together.' Drawing by J. R. Skelton, 1920
The Brontë sisters wrote fiction rather different from that common at the time.
Lord Tennyson, the Poet Laureate
Charles Darwin's work On the Origin of Species affected society, throughout the Victoria era, and still does today.
Victorian era
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In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the reign of Queen Victoria, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901, although slightly different defini
Victorian literature
…Victorian literature is English literature during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901). In the Victorian era, the novel became the leading literary genre in…
Painting of Queen Victoria by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1859)
Information circulated by the campaign of Lewis Pugh Pugh, a candidate at the 1880 general election in Cardiganshire (now known as Ceredigion), explaining to supporters how to vote
Depiction of the defence of Rorke's Drift during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 by Alphonse de Neuville (1880)
Recreation of a Victorian parlour at Nidderdale Museum, Yorkshire