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Geffrye Museum

Geffrye Museum: Interactive Journey: Travel Back to Victorian London

For Students 3rd - 8th
Travel back in time to the Victorian era in this interactive journey to help Ruby & Michael search for Sam, their missing dog. While you are searching, you can learn about Victorian life by examining the objects in the house,...
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Birmingham Museums Trust (UK)

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery: The Victorians Inventions

For Students 3rd - 7th
Try to identify the inventions form the Victorian era, and then learn more about each discovery.
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Other

Gaslight: The Mystery of Edwin Drood

For Students 9th - 10th
This uncompleted novel by Charles Dickens is reproduced here in its 1912 edition. The thorough transcription indicates the revisions that both Dickens and his executor made. Be sure to read the message about copyright and permissions.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The New Woman

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection uses primary sources to explore the New Woman ideal.
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Victorian Web

The Victorian Web: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

For Students 9th - 10th
Portal site to information about the life and work the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861). As a Victorian era feminist, she wrote about women's issues, which figure prominently in "Aurora Leigh." Includes relevant political and...
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Birmingham Museums Trust (UK)

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery: The Victorians

For Students 2nd - 5th
A look into life during the Victorian Era! Learn about the clothing, inventions, plants, and much more about life during this time period in England.
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BBC

Bbc: Victorian Britain

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive, diverse site that provides the student with lots of great information about Britain during the Victorian era. Discover the Victorian way of life through narrative, pictures, and games.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Golden Fleece by Julian Hawthorne

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the novel The Golden Fleece by Julian Hawthorne, a combination romance, adventure, metaphysical and mystery from the Victorian era by the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Puritan

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this Victorian era neo-classically inclined bronze sculpture "The Puritan" by the American artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The sculpture is presented as an enlargeable image with a description and lonks...
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Indiana University

Indiana University: Victorian Women Writers Project

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the place to find works by a variety of women writers of the Victorian age. Be sure to scroll down to the "Proceed to the collection," button to access the work.
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Other

Hampshire Schools: Victorian Inventions

For Students 4th - 7th
Find out about some important inventions from the Industrialized Victorian Era.
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PBS

Pbs: The 1900 House

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS transports a modern family back to 1900 so that we may learn, from their experience, what daily life was like at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Project Britain

Primary Homework Help: The Victorians: Inventions Timeline

For Students 3rd - 6th
An organized timeline featuring major developments and inventions that made travel, communications, and trade easier for many people during Queen Victoria's reign.
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Sacred Text Archive

"Stories From the Faerie Queene" by Mary Macleod

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a Victorian era retelling of Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queen." Useful for getting a grip on the plot, or for comparison of language.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Victorian Literature: Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the introduction to a unit on Victorian Literature, a period describing the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) as prudish and old fashioned, but is considered by some as a second English Renaissance, a time of wealth, power, and...
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Other

Kenneth Spencer Research Library: Great Exhibition, 1851

For Students 9th - 10th
Online exhibit with details of the international exhibition held in Hyde Park in 1851, the Great Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations, a testament to industrial growth in the Victorian era.
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Other

A Web of Understanding: Sikhs

For Students 9th - 10th
This page is part of a 2001 display on prejudice created by the museum. Here you can read original documents and letters that highlight racial prejudice faced by Sikh immigrants in British Columbia in the Victorian era.
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Other

A Web of Understanding: Education Packs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Here you can download excellent educational packs on prejudice in the Kootenays in the Victorian era. They is one for Grade 5, and two for Grade 10 and they are quite large.
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Other

A Web of Understanding: Jews

For Students 9th - 10th
This page is part of a 2001 display on prejudice created by the museum. Here you can read original documents that highlight the anti-Semitism faced by Jewish people in British Columbia in the Victorian era.
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Birmingham Museums Trust (UK)

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery: A Very Old Kitchen

For Students 2nd - 5th
Explore kitchen equipment from the Victorian period of late nineteenth century England.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer (Mariana Griswold)

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this Victorian era neo-classically inclined bronze relief sculpture "Schuyler Van Rensselaer (Mariana Griswold)" by the American artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The sculpture is presented as an...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Robert Louis Stevenson

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this Victorian era neo-classically inclined bronze relief sculpture "Robert Louis Stevenson" by the American artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The sculpture is presented as an enlargeable image with a...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Mrs. Stanford White (Bessie Springs Smith)

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this Victorian era neo-classically inclined marble relief sculpture "Mrs. Stanford White (Bessie Springs Smith)" by the American artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The sculpture is presented as an...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Hiawatha

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this Victorian era neo-classically inclined marble sculpture "Hiawatha" by the American artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The sculpture is presented as an enlargeable image with a description and lonks to...