the victorian period
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THE VICTORIAN PERIOD. BY:MICHELLE LYN MUELLER. 1832-1901. Had unbounded confidence Living in a time of great change Queen Victoria The empire begun in 17 th and 18 th w ith British interest in India and North America. “Virgin queen”. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
THE VICTORIAN PERIOD
BY:MICHELLE LYN MUELLER
1832-1901
Had unbounded confidence
Living in a time of great change
Queen Victoria The empire begun
in 17th and 18th with British interest in India and North America
“Virgin queen”
She ruled more than 200 million people living Outside Great Britain
She believed in powerful ideas of authority
Took the thrown of the Anglican church
MAJOR AUTHORS
• Charles dickens
• Pickwick Papers
• William Thackeray
• George Eliot
• Thomas Hardy
Credited to writing about child labor
Industrial revolution was created
The Victorians loved the heroic stories of knights
Poetry, sonnets ROMANTISM
beleifs
Science would often contradict with religion
Charles Darwin natural selection and believed that nature was indeed a creation of god