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VICTORIAN TIMES Good and evil…Scientific discoveries…Technological development…Mystery…Power…Poverty…Hipocrisy…A traditional society full of contrasts and
contradictions…
Queen Victoria1837-1901
Prince Albert She married her
cousinPrince Albert 1840. Albert died in 1861. They had nine
children.
The British Empire at its highest
The Industrial RevolutionSteam-powered engines…
Factories…
The train…
Growth of cities…
Creation of universities in different towns…
The Great Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park (London)
Wealth, art and beauty: monuments and museums in Victorian England
Great English and Irish writersCharles DickensOscar WildeGeorge Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)Elizabeth GaskellCharlotte BrontëEmily BrontëAnne BrontëSir Arthur Conan Doyle
Bram StokerRobert Louis StevensonThomas HardyLewis Carroll
Great artistsJohn William Waterhouse
Dante Gabriel Rosetti
William Turner
Scientific and medical advancesVaccinations against smallpox
Discovery of aneasthesia
Advances in surgery
New hospitals and modern nursing (improved by women such as Florence Nightingale)
The Irish Famine (1845-1850)
Social classes and life conditionsAristocracy and owners of the land
Factory owners
The peasants, servants and factory workers
The Workhouse
Learning conditions
Public schools
Ragged schools
Working conditions
Housing conditions
Women conditionThe “angel” of the
house… the weak, fragile lady…
The poor and destitute women: the servants, the factory workers, the mine workers, the peasants, the prostitutes, the “mad” women…
Women advancesElizabeth Garret,first woman doctor in England
The Lond School of Medicine for women
The Suffrage movement