When you think of Charles Dickens you immediately think of A Christmas Carol. ... His more popular works included Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities and A Christmas Carol. ... The plot of the story starts out on Christmas Eve ,a young Pip, an orphan being raised by his sister and her husband, meets a really scary man in the village churchyard who had just excaped from one of the ships docked at the port. ...

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An ode the woman herself, Queen Victoria, and the subsequent characteristics of the Victorian period In an unpredictable, tumultuous era, the stern, staid figure of Queen Victoria came to represent stability and continuity. The adjective "Victorian" was first used in 1851 to celebrate the nation's mounting pride in its institutions and commercial success. That year, the global predominance of British industry had emerged incontestably at the original "world's fair" in London, the "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations," which Prince Albert helped organize. Arra...

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