Queen Victoria, Industrial Revolution, Charles Dickens

QUEEN VICTORIA

life:

Queen Victoria was queen of the United Kingdom for 63 years. She was born ar Kensington Place, London, on 24th

May 1819. She was the only daugher of Edward,

Duke of Kent. Victoria's first language was German, at three years old she learnt to speak English. She ascended the throne at 18, because her father had died. Her husband was Prince Albert, married in 1840. Albert had an active interest in the arts, science, trade and industry. Price Albert died in 1861 and Victoria was attached by depression, after his death she always wears black. She survived seven attempts of assassination and she died at Osborne House on 22nd January 1901.

Britain changes:

While Victoria was Queen there was a tremendous change in the lives of Brithish people: Britain became the most powerful country in the world with the largest empire that had ever existed, ruling a quarter of the world's population. Factories and machines were bulit to meet new towns grew up,changing the landscape and the ways people lived and worked. Queen Victoria was the first reigning monarch to use trains, she made her first journey in 1842.

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

history:

The Industrial Revolution which was the period between 1760 and 1840, when Britain was transformed from a rural nation into an industrialised country. The most important inventions of this revolution were the steam locomotive, the steam engine and steam ship. Workers worked 12-14 hours a day, even children were used in the mines because they had small hands so they could work better. In 1851 Queen Victoria presides over the state opening of the first Great Exhibition of the works of Industry which took place in London.

CHARLES DICKENS

works:

Charles Dickens was one of the most famous English writers. He pubblished fifteen novels and he often wrote about the poverty that he had seed himself. His masterpiece ''Oliver Twist'' tells the story of a poor orphan and shows the cruell reality of life among the por at the time.

life:

Charles was born in Landport in 1812 into a family of 8 children. He and his family moved many times until, in 1824, his father was arrested for debt and his family became poor. So Charles starts working in a shoe factory to raise his family. Between 1830 and 1848 he published many books but one of the most successful novels was David Copperfeld. He died in 1870 of illness.