Clothing Later Victorian (1870-1890) After the death of her husband in 1861‚ Victoria went into seclusion‚ and though still deeply respected as sovereign of a great empire‚ she ceased to influence fashion as directly. The somber colors that came into fashion are attributed to the fact that the British Court remained in mourning. Black became a popular fashion color in this period‚ not only worn for mourning. However dress forms changed significantly. After decades of full skirts‚ a new silhouette
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The Victorian Period Queen Victoria The Victorian period formally begins in 1837 (the year Victoria became Queen) and ends in 1901 (the year of her death). As a matter of expediency‚ these dates are sometimes modified slightly. 1830 is usually considered the end of the Romantic period in Britain‚ and thus makes a convenient starting date for Victorianism. Similarly‚ since Queen Victoria’s death occurred so soon in the beginning of a new century‚ the end of the previous century provides a useful
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disease.. Her brother Henry arranged for the publication of her last two novels after her death. Only then did people become aware of the author of these popular works of literature- all the novels published during her lifetime had been published anonymously. Emily Bronte (1818-1848) was born in Yorkshire‚ England (where Wuthering Heights is set)‚ the fifth of six children of Patrick and Maria Bronte. The isolation of the Bronte children seems to have generated a rich life of the imagination. She and
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Victorian Age (1837-1901) The label Victorian is given to the period of Queen Victoria’s reign‚ which is from the time of 1837 to 1901. This period consisted of continuity and a change. It was an extension of the Romantic age and also a break from it. There is consciousness of something having disappeared and something having almost appeared. Matthew Arnold spoke of living between two worlds‚ one dead‚ and the other two young to be born. There is conflict‚ doubt‚ nostalgia and uncertainty in the
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Wuthering Heights is the only novel written by the Victorian writer‚ Emily Bronte besides her poems. It is one of the most passionate and heartfelt novels. It is also‚ considered highly original and deeply tragic. This novel is about the relation between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff‚ the orphan boy brought to Wuthering Heights‚ and his tyrannical revenge excited on everybody for the rage and humiliation he suffers throughout his life. The novel is based on a group of flashbacks which are organized
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Victorian Thinkers (Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin) Victorian Thinkers contains studies of four of the most influential critics of 19th-century British culture. Each was heralded a prophet in his own lifetime‚ and yet each was also regarded as misguided‚ and even mad‚ by his contemporaries. Their interests in art and culture led them to develop views on society and economics. Carlyle was a writer of extraordinary stature‚ radical in thought and style; Ruskin‚ who began his career as a critic of
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“If I were in heaven‚ Nelly‚ I would be extremely miserable.” How do the settings and characters in Emily Brontë’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ reflect each other? Written in 1847‚ ‘Wuthering Heights’ is Emily Brontë’s only novel. Published a year after her death under the pseudonym Ellis Bell‚ it is perhaps one of the most passionately original novels in the English language. The narrative tells the tale of the all-encompassing‚ passionate‚ yet thwarted love between dark‚ brooding Heathcliff and hot-blooded
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Victorian Age The beginning of the Victorian Period is dated sometimes as 1832 (the passage of the first Reform Bill) and sometimes as 1837 (the accession of Queen Victoria). It extends to the death of Victoria in 1901. But when we refer the history book of W. J. Long and literary terms of M. H. Abraham‚ we find that the period between 1850 -1900 is regarded as the Victorian Period‚ which is also known as the Age of Compromise and the Age of Peace and Prosperity. When Victoria came on the
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The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria’s reign from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. It was a long period of peace‚ prosperity‚ refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain. Some scholars date the beginning of the period in terms of sensibilities and political concerns to the passage of the Reform Act 1832. The era was preceded by the Georgian period and followed by the Edwardian period. The latter half of the Victorian age roughly
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Victorian Style With the year 1837‚ England saw the beginning of its change in history. The Regency era had ended as England’s new Queen‚ 18-year-old Victoria took the thrown. This new era is mostly known as the beginning of the Victorian era‚ which was obviously named after the reigning monarch‚ Queen Victoria. She was one of the first monarchs to see her name given to the period while she was still alive. She reigned from 1837 until she died in the year 1901‚ which marked the end of the
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