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