Introduction to the Victorian Period

In this post you can find some additional information to what we discussed in class.

For more information on the Victorian Period, access The Victorian Web.

• The Poor Law

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/shp/britishsociety/thepoorrev1.shtml

• Thomas Falkner

About him

To read his diary, click here.

• Leopoldo Brizuela

An interview

Synopsis: Inglaterra, una fábula

• Macauly Act

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/macaulay/txt_minute_education_1835.html

• "Lie back and think of England"

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/close-your-eyes-and-think-of-england.html

• Realism

http://www.online-literature.com/periods/realism.php

• Symbolism

http://www.theartstory.org/movement-symbolism.htm

Introduction to the Victorian Era

I include in this post some of the things mentioned in class in the introduction to the Victorian Era.

For more information on the Victorian Era, you can acces The Victorian Web.

To read the poem "The White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling, click here.

To read more about Jemmy Button and the Fuegians, click here and here.

To read more about El placer de la cautiva by Leopoldo Brizuela, click here.

To read The Virgin and the Gipsy by D. H. Lawrence, click here.