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Hace 3 días · Dickens created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest British novelist of the Victorian era. From the beginning of his career in the 1830s, his achievements in English literature were compared to those of Shakespeare.
- Novelist
- 9 June 1870 (aged 58), Higham, Kent, England
- Charles John Huffam Dickens, 7 February 1812, Portsmouth, England
- Ellen Ternan (1857–1870, his death)
Hace 2 días · For nearly 200 years, Florence Nightingale’s name has been synonymous with gentle compassion and mercy.. In the mid-19th century, Nightingale became perhaps the most celebrated woman of her era ...
Hace 2 días · What is called the first Industrial Revolution lasted from the mid-18th century to about 1830 and was mostly confined to Britain. The second Industrial Revolution lasted from the mid-19th century until the early 20th century and took place in Britain, continental Europe, North America, and Japan.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Hace 3 días · Thomas Carlyle (4 December 1795 – 5 February 1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian, and philosopher from the Scottish Lowlands. A leading writer of the Victorian era, he exerted a profound influence on 19th-century art, literature, and philosophy. Born in Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Carlyle attended the University of Edinburgh ...
- 5 February 1881 (aged 85), London, England
- 4 December 1795, Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
- University of Edinburgh
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Hace 3 días · Professor Miles Taylor, review of The Mid-Victorian Generation 1846-1886, (review no. 77) https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/77. Date accessed: 14 May, 2024. Nearly one hundred years after the death of Queen Victoria, Victorian history is, on the face of it, in remarkably good shape. Alongside Hitler, the period remains the staple ...
Hace 3 días · Victorian and 19th Century. Literature in English. Browse library materials for the study of literature in English. 19th Century. C19: The Nineteenth Century Index. Find books, archives, periodicals, newspapers, and official publications. Some full text.
Hace 3 días · Through a language of anxiety, ‘Victorians confronted and internalized their own sense of modernity’ (p. 221). For this innovative study, the writings of critics such as Bulwer-Lytton, polemicists, physicians and journalists provide the main windows into anxious mind-sets of 19th-century Britain.
