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    Women in the Victorian Era The Victorian era was a period of wide extremes - characterized by industrial reforms‚ cultural transformations‚ scientific progress‚ gracious living and grinding poverty and wars. The Victorian era lasted from 1837 to 1901‚ when Queen Victoria reigned‚ although many historians believe that the Reform act of 1832 signifies the inception of the Victorian era.The life of women in Victorian era was generally centered on family commitments. Women were seen as temples of love

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    Marriage in the Victorian Era Nowadays a woman for the most part can marry whomever they wish‚ while in the Victorian Ages‚ marriage was a more complicated issue that one just didn’t step into. Women these days have a lot more control in their marriage than they used to. It is amazing how much things have changed from a time when men were the head of the house and had so much control over the household to a period where the couple now works together to make decisions. Back in the days of the

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    comedy. In his play The Importance of Being Earnest‚ Oscar Wilde uses dramatic irony to create humor by creating problems for characters to solve‚ promoting reactions from characters‚ and tying these problem and reactions into the resolution. In The Importance of Being Earnest the audience is aware of future conflicts and secrets between the characters before the characters themselves are. One main secret‚ that Jack is pretending to be his nonexistent bother Earnest‚ drives the play. When

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    Children in Victorian Britain Introduction “May I have some more?” The classic line from Oliver twist that everybody seems to know. It gives us an insight on what many Victorian children had to go through. But what else was there other than the well-known fact that children were sent to work at the measly age of 4? Other than children were better of seen than heard. In this I will describe to you the typical childhood that most children rich or poor lead from birth to school. Lets start with

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    The Victorian Era‚ the years of Queen Victoria’s reign: 1837-1901 were the years that many changes began to occur. With many changing attitudes towards religion‚ social values and ones-self came a transition that was for the best. The Age of Enlightenment was where people of Britain questioned traditional authority and embraced the notion that humanity could be improved through rational change. The outcome of this was new inventions‚ scientific discoveries‚ laws‚ wars and revolutions. Views

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    n the Victorian Era women were seen‚ by the middle classes at least‚ as belonging to the domestic sphere‚ and this stereotype required them to provide their husbands with a clean home‚ food on the table and to raise their children. Women’s rights were extremely limited in this era‚ losing ownership of their wages‚ all of their physical property‚ excluding land property‚ and all other cash they generated once married.[1] When a Victorian man and woman married‚ the rights of the woman were legally

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    Hosting in the Victorian Era Hosting was very popular in the Victorian Era . It was a huge privilege to host a tea party. It showed how organized you were and if you were a good wife and mother. You have to have everything in line and have everyone enjoying themselves. Hosting a tea party will be a good way to bring up history. You will become engrossed in the comfort with face-to-face conversation. With today’s media‚ tea parties seem unnecessary and silly. When people imagine tea-parties‚ they

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    Pictorialism in the Victorian Era; The Works of Julia Margaret Cameron and Madame Yevonde A Personal Research Project Looking at Two Female Photographers of the Victorian Era and Their Styles of Photography Contents Introduction………………………………....................................................................3 Chapter 1 - Pictorialism……………………………….................................................4 Chapter 2 - Julia Margaret Cameron………………………………...................

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    The Victorian Laissez-Faire system of social reform relied on voluntary contribution of the wealthy and the charitable to relieve poverty‚ rather than the now standard system of using money from universal taxes to pay for universal services such as public health and housing. The founding laws of this welfare state we now live in today where known as the liberal reforms‚ a series of legislation that encouraged a far more collectivist attitude to social reform that verged on socialism‚ dreaded by the

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    The stories he told through his unique novels actively focused on religion‚ gender roles‚ and society as a whole. It is extremely difficult to begin to visualize and imagine the pain and suffering Hemingway experienced throughout his 62 years of life. He had a variety of mental health disorders that stemmed from his sad upbringing and from his family’s history of having mental health problems. Earnest Hemingway has seen more high and lows in sixty two years than most people see in a lifetime. Hemingway

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