Her quiet reserve restored the dignity of the monarchy after the rakish ways of George IV, but she allowed advertisers to trade shamelessly on her image and product endorsements. ... In the following pages, I wish to highlight the characteristics, form and the revolutionary aspects of the Victorian Novel, along with a brief analysis on three very important Victorian writers - William Makepeace Thakeray, Charles Dickens and George Eliot( Mary Ann Evans). ... The novels of Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and Thomas Hardy were read not merely by a literary elit...

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She reigned longer even than her grandfather, George III, during which Britain became the most powerful nation on Earth. ... George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) felt the need write about the ethical conflicts and social problems of the late Victorian Era. Two of her famous works, Adam Bede and Middlemarch, focus on the lives of the middle class. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Unlike the earlier romantic 19th century novels of Jane Austen whose characters such as Elizabeth Bennett lived happily ever after, Victorian novelist George Eliot, broke the tradition of the standard romantic novel by representing women in unhappy relationships and the reality and problems of the woman's role in life and their place in society, this is particularly evident in her realist novel Middlemarch. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate