VICTORIAN ERA PRESENTATION

Victorian england

1837-1901

Historical context

Queen Victoria

Queen of :

• United Kingdom
• Great Britain
• Ireland

• Canada
• Australia

Impress of India

Queen Victoria in 1880

Industrial Era

the country became the first economic power in the world Creation of steam trains and steam boats The new factories needed more workers, thus children began to work

queen victoria

1819-1901

The perfect wife

Her nickrnames

Her reign

She was named :

• She submits to her husband's wishes

• She has children even if she doesn't like them

• She fulfills her role of mother, wife and monarch at the same time

• June 20th 1837 to January 22nd 1901

• Her husband : Prince Albert

• 9 children

• she is known to have strict standards of personal morality.

• Grandmother of Europe

• The Famine Queen

The Society

• The Victorian Era was characterized with sexual restraint, a strict code of conduct, and a low tolerance for crime.
• A middle class emerged in industrial cities (with the "white collar" jobs)

• The working class : all the family has to work . They work in factories.

Art

Visual arts

Litterature

The Great Exhibition (1851) which showcased the greatest innovations of the century. Popular styles of painting : Classicism, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Impressionism, and Post-impressionism

Rise of the literary genre of the novel Criticism of the Victorian society Some authors : Oscar Wilde, Emily Brontë,...

Music

Michael Balfe : the most popular British grand opera composer during the Victorian Era

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Popular paintings

Charles William Wyllie, The Backwater, 1872 (impressionism)

Frederic Lord Leighton, Flaming June, 1895 (neoclassicism / aesthetic movement)

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