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  Encyclopedia: Victorians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Victorian era was preceded by the Georgian era and came before the Edwardian period.
However, the Victorian painters successfully illustrated the fruits of the unprecedented achievements of the industrial revolution and its profound social and moral challenges.
Victorian painters chose to create art that could be understood by a population of widely contrasting social and educational backgrounds, so that they were offering entertainment as well as cultural improvement.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Victorians   (1772 words)

  
 Victorian Theories of Sex and Sexuality
For during this period, even in seeking any man or woman's ultimate goal in achieving the apparently conservative happy ending of marriage, Victorians were inevitably led to the consummation of their love and the creation one's own home and family.
Victorian theories of evolution believed that these feminine and masculine attributes traced back to the lowest forms of life.
The roles of men and women understood as thus, the Victorians still had to deal with the actual sexual act, wherein the bipolar model still held.
www.victorianweb.org /gender/sextheory.html   (626 words)

  
 TheCriticalPoet - Featured Movement - Victorian Poetry
Victorian poetry is so defined because it was written predominantly in England during the reign of Victoria (1837-1901), a long period of magnificent achievement.
Victorian Poetry, which can be classified as Early (1837-51), Mid (1851-70) and Late (1870-1901), saw the progress in poetic sensibility from the Romantic Era to the Modernist Era.
The Sonnet was a popular form in Victorian poetry, notably in the work of Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
thecriticalpoet.tripod.com /victorian.htm   (257 words)

  
 Victorians Homework for kids
The Victorians lived over one hundred and fifty years ago during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837 to 1901) and was a time of enormous change in this country.
We can study Victorian maps and documents, such as the forms that were filled in during the census.
They were usually large, in 1870 the many families had five or six children.Each member of the family had their own role and children were taught to "know their place" and "be seen and not heard".
www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk /Homework/victorians.html   (483 words)

  
 Victorian Web Sites - The Victorian Literary Studies Archive
Victorians Institute, The - an organization of scholars and students centered in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the USA.
Victorian Literary Trivia - 640 questions and quotations of literary trivia based on the writings and the lives of sixteen 19th century writers from Jane Austen to Oscar Wilde.
Victorian Society, The - founded in 1958 as a national pressure group fighting to protect Victorian and Edwardian buildings in England and Wales.
www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp /~matsuoka/Victorian.html   (1753 words)

  
 Victorians
At the close of the nineteenth century it was firmly established as a medium of entertainment, instruction and experiment, making fortunes and reputations and changing the very way that people looked on their world.
Victorian Crime : Patrol the streets as a 'peeler', catch the criminals and decide their punishment.
Virtual Victorians is of particular relevance to the topic of Victorian Britain within the history curriculum, and the 'Teachers' Centre' offers ideas for teachers to support the QCA schemes of work and to help them use the materials in the classroom.
www.shambles.net /pages/learning/primary/Victorian   (948 words)

  
 HIST 450a Victorians: Syllabus
Victorian society was often constrained by a strict and stultifying class system, with its own narrow moral and social codes, and yet from within this conformity emerged some of the most creative and intellectually fearless minds of any age.
The Victorians were imbued with the ideals of progress and humanitarian reform while at times coldly indifferent to the worst suffering in their midst.
From imperial pomp and pageantry to grinding poverty and urban squalor, from class rigidity to bold individuality, from colonial outposts at the furthest reaches of the globe to "little England," and from daring vision to prim narrow-mindedness the Victorians remain a lasting study in contrast.
www.lclark.edu /~campion/hist450a   (516 words)

  
 Victorians are among the worst drivers in the world - the Age
Victorians are among the worst drivers in the world - the Age
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www.talkaboutautos.com /group/aus.cars/messages/675430.html   (424 words)

  
 The Grand Victorians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
From 1850 to 1900, 48,000 houses in the range of styles that we now call "Victorian" were built to accommodate the city's burgeoning population.
Turn left on Franklin to reach the Haas-Lilienthal House, one of the most elaborate Victorians in the city and one that is open to the public.
The 1800 block of Laguna has lovely Victorians on both sides of the street, while stately mansions in a variety of architectural styles adorn Broadway and Pacific.
www.sallys-place.com /travel/san_francisco/pt_painted.htm   (679 words)

  
 Reactionary San Francisco / Our attachment to Victorians may keep us from moving forward
Just why I thought it worth ten grand to re-create an aesthetic popular when women wore corsets and were confined after being diagnosed with hysteria, when an oligarchy of wealthy railroad and logging families ruled the City, when police shot at workers attempting to unionize, I'm not sure.
Victorians were not, as many San Franciscans assume, made with individuality in mind.
After all, Victorians were the home of choice for many hippies, and every generation since then has chosen them as the staging ground for their bohemianism.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/archive/2004/08/31/carollloyd.DTL   (2051 words)

  
 The dirty state we're in - Science - www.theage.com.au
In fact, Victorians are among the worst greenhouse gas polluters on the planet.
While Victorian electricity generators do contribute more than their fair share of Australia's greenhouse emissions, it's only part of an alarming national trend.
Whether we like it or not, Victorians either have to start changing their energy-hungry ways, or accept that the Latrobe Valley's coal fires will keep on burning for many more decades to come.
www.theage.com.au /news/Science/The-dirty-state-were-in/2005/02/13/1108229853716.html   (2246 words)

  
 V&A - Victorians - Nature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Darwin's evolutionary theory and the evidence of dinosaur fossils forced the Victorians to question established views about the origins of life, and mankind's relationship with the natural world.
The use of animal parts in furniture, jewellery and costume was part of the Victorian desire for novelty.
In the Victorian era the dog was far and away the most popular domestic pet, with many new breeds being introduced into Britain.
www.vam.ac.uk /vastatic/microsites/victorians/finals/nature.html   (413 words)

  
 Victorians pumping billions into the pokies - National - www.theage.com.au
The amount Victorians are losing on the pokies is on the rise with the total losses of players throughout the state expected to top more than $2.3 billion this financial year.
A new study by the Victorian Local Governance Association (VLGA) found that more than a year after a smoking ban in gaming venues caused poker machine losses to drop by almost 20 per cent, the amount Victorians are losing on gaming machines has begun to slowly increase.
VLGA chief executive Andrew Rowe said this showed the smoking ban had had an effect, but other measures were needed to reduce the amount Victorians were gambling away on pokies.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/02/28/1077677015676.html   (490 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Magazine | What the Victorians can teach us about city life
The way the Victorians did things more than a century ago could be making a comeback - not in the way Margaret Thatcher intended, but in the way we live modern urban life.
Hunt notes that some of the great Victorian cities have become shadows of their former selves over the past 50 years.
Where Victorian developers saw cities as representing the future, today we tend to view city life as a potential threat to our health and wellbeing.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/magazine/3809821.stm   (1111 words)

  
 The Victorians
In case your children are studying the Victorians this term, here are several websites and books devoted to the subject.
Victorian Children from Channel 4 - information on Victorian Schools, those who helped children in Victorian times, Victorian toyshop and Timeline.
The Vile Victorians by Terry Dreary, Neil Tonge, illustrated by Martin Brown, published by Scholastic Hippo.
www.familyrapp.com /Results/archive_results_details.asp?ArticleID=201   (397 words)

  
 V for Victory
The curators link the work to tuberculosis, a rampant Victorian disease, but it also suggests the lung damage suffered by Victorian factory workers and coal miners, the lethal "pea soup" fogs caused by coal smoke pollution and constricting corsets which resulted in ladies’ fainting spells.
Nelson’s use of curious ingredients, such as nail polish, cinnamon, cocoa and talc, is reminiscent of the Victorians’ elaborate, and oftentimes dubious, recipes for polishes, remedies and other useful items.
The artists in it deconstruct some Victorian motifs and bend others to their own purposes, but on the whole they do not exemplify the Victorian spirit.
www.citypaper.net /articles/030801/ae.art.victorians.shtml   (1059 words)

  
 Ministerial Advisory Council of Senior Victorians: Office of Senior Victorians - Department for Victorian Communities, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ms Sgrò is National Coordinator and Victorian President of the Union of Australian Women, an organisation established in 1950 to advance the status and well being of women in a world free of war and violence.
She has been a community activist in Moreland for many years and was instrumental with FILEF Women's Group in the establishment in Coburg in the 80's of the first work-related child care centre in Victoria that involved workers, unions and the three levels of government.
Mrs West is the President of National Seniors Geelong and the Victorian Chairperson of National Seniors, a member of the COTA National Seniors State Policy Council in Victoria and her local Neighbourhood Watch committee.
www.seniors.vic.gov.au /activities/council   (2112 words)

  
 Alcoholism among Victorians
Throughout Victorian society “gin was the preferred spirit of the lower class, while wine and brandy were imbibed by the more comfortable citizenry” (Alcoholic Beverages 12).
During the nineteenth century, the Victorians had high expectations of their class system to make sure the classes were distinct and properly represented.
These men, and many other individuals, were so much affected by the changes of the time that they were found out of work, in unfortunate family situations and their only comfort was the taste of alcohol.
www.clas.ufl.edu /users/agunn/teaching/enl3251_spring2005/omf/BACHMAN.htm   (672 words)

  
 The Victorians
In The Victorians category, you will be introduced to a vast array of information including the day-to-day life in a family's home.
The Victorian bedroom was viewed as a "sanctuary" as families expanded and the middle class could afford to hire servants.
The Victorians took decisive measures to ensure their safety in case of a physician's erroneous pronouncement.
www.romanceeverafter.com /the_victorians.htm   (805 words)

  
 The Victorians
Did you know that the Victorians thought it was good luck to put a cat in the bricks of a house?
Conditions in the workhouses during Victorian times, and working conditions for chimney sweeps are not specified as content to be covered by Standard Grade at Foundation, General or Credit levels, for Unit IA, IB or IC.
I suggest that you ask your teacher to go over the content headings for the units that you have covered, so that you do not waste valuable time looking at topics that will not come up in the June exam.
spaces.msn.com /members/thevictorians   (180 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: The Victorians: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
AN Wilson’s The Victorians is the longest and liveliest of the books which have appeared in the wake of the centenary of Victoria’s death.
Familiar tales are told about the sexual proclivities, religious hypocrisies and gargantuan economic and imperial appetites of the Victorians.
I'm not qualified to say how comprehensive the list of Victorians is, but they are drawn mainly from the worlds of politics, art and literature.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0091794218   (1179 words)

  
 Victorians
Victorian Times Project: primary sources and information on education, transport, work and housing.
Victorian Costume: dress a Victorian lady from BBC History.
Victorian Art in Britain: short biographies of painters and links to museums and paintings.
www.ers.north-ayrshire.gov.uk /Victorians.htm   (321 words)

  
 Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
Perspectives on gender and sexuality in Victorian Britain, from the early suffrage movement to the life and trials of Oscar Wilde.
Tracking the encounters between science, literature, and epistemology in the Victorian era, Gillian Beer, King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Clare Hall, Cambridge, UK, discusses the origins and use of satire and empathy, which became a predominant part of literary and scientific discourse during this period.
In The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel, a series of specially-commissioned essays examine the work of Charles Dickens, the Brontes, George Eliot and other canonical writers, as well as that of such writers as Olive Schreiner, Wilkie Collins and H. Rider Haggard, whose work has recently attracted new attention from scholars and students.
www.fathom.com /special/victorians   (667 words)

  
 Victorians Institute Homepage
The last meeting of the Institute was "The Nine Lives of Victorian Poetry," April 1-2, 2005, at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
The Victorians Institute Journal, an annual publication of studies in Victorian literature, art, and culture, is produced under the auspice of the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Manuscript Submissions: Two copies of papers and reviews on Victorian literature, art, or culture should be addressed to the Editor, Victorians Institute Journal, Department of English, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284-2005.
www.vcu.edu /vij   (427 words)

  
 Novel: A Forum on Fiction: Wired Victorians
Reclaiming the Victorians for a postmodern moment defined by technological innovation, Dickens in Cyberspace brings to light nineteenth-century Britain's fascination with engineering novelties and scientific discovery and examines how this often-forgotten Victorian legacy resonates with contemporary literature and culture.
That volume analyzed various forms of contemporary obsession with the Victorian period, especially insofar as that age functioned as a site of historical rupture and cultural emergence, and included an essay by Clayton on The Difference Engine and Tom Stoppard's Arcadia (1993) that became a central chapter in Dickens in Cyberspace.
Overt theorizing aside, one of the strengths of Dickens in Cyberspace is the rich vocabulary it provides for describing the anomalous historical phenomena called out of the shadows by a dialectical approach to the past.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3643/is_200310/ai_n9520934   (1052 words)

  
 Art Business News: Reborn Victorians: today, a generation of contemporary artists is returning to photography's ...
These born-again Victorian photographers use antique tools and methods to record and manipulate contemporary subject matter in fresh, new and individualistic ways.
MoPA is one of several museums and public galleries that have exhibited Victorian style photographs in the past few years.
In March, MoPA presented the works of 13 cutting-edge artists in "Secret Victorians: Contemporary Photographers Working in 19th Century Processes" as a companion show to the museum's homage to pioneer photographer William Henry Fox Talbot, whose works from the early 1800s are seldom exhibited.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0HMU/is_10_30/ai_109083320   (1395 words)

  
 Art Nouveau Glass from the Glass Encyclopedia
The name Art Nouveau is derived from a Paris gallery called 'Maison de L'Art Nouveau', which played a role in displaying and popularising this style.
Art Nouveau was in part a reaction to the Victorian passion for imitating earlier styles like Classical and Renaissance, Baroque and Rococco styles.
Imitations of works of art from the past seemed to give the Victorians a sense of security and confidence in their own affluence.
www.glassencyclopedia.com /artnouveauglass.html   (548 words)

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