Victorian boarders.

Victorian home.

An six part article in which the various roles women played in Victorian England is discussed. There was the domestic sphere, the home life, and then there was the women's life outside the home, in the city. The author explores the idea...

Victorian home.

The Red Victorian, Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco)

The author explores how the status and place of women in Victorian England changed over the course of the 19th century. Women became much more active in service and mission type work. In addition, early feminism has its roots in this...

The Victorian Web provides a brief biography of the Victorian economist Thomas Robert Malthus, focusing on his views on population growth. Links are provided throughout the article for additional information.

Victorian Web provides a site that covers the the study of archetypes in Oscar Wilde's fiction. Gives good examples of this kind of criticism. Very accessible to students, with a short list of references at the end.

A briefdescripton of atheism is provided. Additionally, an explanation of how many Victorian authors chose agnosticism over atheism is included.

This Victorian Web site defines realism as used in literature and as a "nineteenth-century movement that believed novelists and painters should concentrate on describing the physical, material details of life."

Track the Victorian Age through this informative research site. This site contains several links to help bridge your knowledge of Victorian research. Don't miss out.

Ideas for teaching and learning about Victorian architecture in the United States, both interiors and exteriors. Although directed to teachers, House Keys compiles much useful information of interest to anyone studying the design of...

Have you ever studied Lord Tennyson's work? This site features information on the life and work of this famous Victorian writer.

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.

Provides lots of information about the Victorian Age poet Matthew Arnold (1822-1888 CE). A biography of the poet, links to some of his poems, and links to other authors and key figures of the time period are provided here on the site.

This is a good example of how to write a literary analysis essay on poetry. This example compares and contrasts Tennyson and Yeats, Victorian poets, on the basis of their lives and their poetry. W.9-10.9a Analysis

This Gothic-Romantic novel, set in Victorian England, chronicles the life of Jane Eyre: a plain governess who falls in love with her employer and discovers a terrible secret within Thornfield. Selected (11) reading passages (grades 8-12)...

This describes Victoria's achievements in the early years of her reign. It discusses reforms, the first "World's Fair", the Crimean War, and the Indian Mutiny.

A complex definition of a literary flashback, in addition to examples of flashbacks used by famous authors (Eliot, Doyle). The site also distinguishes the flashback from the narrative annex. RL.9-10.5 text structure effects

Information about the origins of the terms agnostic and agnosticism.

A biography of the life and works of Irish author Jonathan Swift.

An introduction to Jonathan Swift's essay "A Modest Proposal."

Biographical information about the life and works of English author John Ruskin.

Information is provided about the Reform Acts along with links to other related sites. The information focuses on the three Reform Acts of 1832, 1867, and 1884 and describes how these acts extended voting rights to previously...