In succeeding decades, the official portraits of Queen Victoria, gradually aging, reflected her country's sense of its own maturation as a society and world power. ... Finally, as the aged, venerated Widow of Windsor, she became a universal icon, prompting the nostalgic worldwide spectacles of the Golden and Diamond Jubilees in 1887 and 1897. ... The Industrial Revolution shifted power from the landed aristocracy toward an insecure, expanding middle class of businessmen and professionals, impoverishing millions of once-rural laborers along the way. Strident, riotous campaigns to extend vo...

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It is characterized by rapid growth and extreme change in politics, literature, science, social class, and economy. ... She fell in love with and soon proposed to Albert of Saxe-Coburg–Gotha. ... The middle class was very much like the elite in mindset. ... The British Empire also saw a transformation and expansion in literature during the Victorian Era. ... Poets like Keats, Shelly, and Wordsworth inspired the poets of the Victorian age from the Romantic Era. ...

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Most parents sought to have a boy because he could carry on the family name, the family wealth, and provide for the parents in their old age. ... There was an upper class, middles class, working class and the poor. ... The middle class had well-paying jobs that they worked hard for but provided a lot (Mores 47). The lower class did most of the dirty work for the upper and middle class. ... Brocklehurst ordered meals to be skipped and lectured that they were all going to hell for the love of possessions. ...

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Women's position during Victorian Age and Bronte sisters B. ... " George Sampson, 1941, The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature I. ... The tragic outcome to the novel is inevitable, but unique imaginative power, was Emily Bronte's only novel, for she died the year after it was published at the age of 30. ... And, today, novel counts in the Classics of English Literature, and every critic accepts Wuthering Heights as a masterpiece. ... Consequently, she became one of the best writers in English literature. ...

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How far does Tennyson's "In Memoriam" reflect the spirit of the Victorian Age? ... Unlike Arnold, he expressed a compromising attitude to his age and its intricate problems. Tennyson, we find, in his Ulysses, The Lotos Eaters, The Charge of the Light Brigade, holds such a sort of view which is supposed to find a middle ground. ... Because of the quality to look for a middle ground, Tennyson is considered as a compromising craftsman who does neither yield to the crisis of his age nor possess a carefree attitude towards the problems, rather keeps compromising and finding a solution. ... ...

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Introduction Nowadays, literature as well as new media offers a wide range of mysterious, supernatural and occult stories dealing with vampires, demons and other forces of darkness. ... The vampire began to appear in English literature after 1800 and it achieved its first real literary importance with the publication of Sheridan Le Fanu's novelette, Carmilla, in 1872. ... " 3.2 Victorian Age's Women The woman of the Victorian Age was the sweet, passive, obedient wife, busy within her domestic setting, showing her concern and appreciation for her masculine protector, apprehens...

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