Curated OER
Image of Seemingly Typical Victorian Wife
An six part article in which the various roles women played in Victorian England is discussed. There was the domestic sphere, the home life, and then there was the women's life outside the home, in the city. The author explores the idea...
Curated OER
Victorian Women Comparing Ball Programmes
The author explores how the status and place of women in Victorian England changed over the course of the 19th century. Women became much more active in service and mission type work. In addition, early feminism has its roots in this...
Victorian Web
Brown University: Victorian Web: John Bright (1811 89)
A biography of John Bright who was a leading member of the Anti-Corn Law League with Richard Cobden.
TES Global
Blendspace: Background for a Christmas Carol
A six-part learning module with links to videos, websites, and a picture providing information about Charles Dickens and Victorian England.
Victorian Web
Brown University: Victorian Web: Puritanism in New England
A brief explanation of the founding of the New England colonies by both Pilgrims and Puritans.
Curated OER
"Five Cents a Spot": Image of Victorian Boarders, How the Other Half Lives, 1888
Victorian boarders.
PBS
Pbs: Queen Victoria's Empire
The companion website to a documentary on Queen Victoria and the British Empire.
PBS
Pbs: The 1900 House
PBS transports a modern family back to 1900 so that we may learn, from their experience, what daily life was like at the turn of the twentieth century.
Victorian Web
Brown University: Victorian Web: The Corn Laws
This a relatively short narrative on the Corn Laws, however, students can hyperlink from various words for a deeper understanding.
Victorian Web
Brown University: Victorian Web: Richard Cobden
A biography of Richard Cobden who was a leading member of the Anti-Corn Law League along with John Bright. There are links to related materials.
Nagoya University (Japan)
Nagoya University: Appreciations and Criticisms of Works of Charles Dickens
G.K. Chesterton offers this look at Dickens' importance and his role in the post-Victorian Age. Each chapter is a separate link.
Other
Delaware Art Museum: Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood
Resources on the history of the brotherhood, along with its aims, interests, artists, and offshoots, from the museum that houses the largest collection of Pre-Raphaelite art outside of England.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto Libraries: George Eliot by Leslie Stephen (1902)
The entire book written by Leslie Stephen on George Eliot. George Eliot was a female and was also known as Mary Ann Evans and Marian Evans. She was a nineteenth-century novelist from England.
British Library
British Library: Language & Literature: Dickens in Context
Literary analysis of themes typically found in the work of Charles Dickens considers questions of poverty and wealth, crime and punishment, industrialization, childhood, caricature, and similar concepts of interest to readers of...
Other
Duke University Press: Duke Journals: The Carlyle Letters Online
This website is a compendium of letters written by Thomas Carlyle and his wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle, to each other and to others. You can search by date, recipient, or subject.
TES Global
Tes: An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestley
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will complete this reading guide for J.B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls as they read or as a reflective reading activity. Students will be able to analyze characters, the historical context,...
Birmingham Museums Trust (UK)
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery: A Very Old Kitchen
Explore kitchen equipment from the Victorian period of late nineteenth century England.
Victorian Web
Victorian Web: Methodism
This essay discusses the cultural influence of the Methodist movement. The author theorizes that this factor may have had more impact on England's literary ideas than that of enhancing or neutralizing the revolutionary fervor of the...
California State University
Urbanowicz on Darwin: The Life & Death of Charles Darwin
This resource provides a paper written by Dr. Charles Urbanowicz, anthropologist at California State University. It deals extensively with the life and death of Charles Darwin, his research, and the publication of his book, "The Origin...
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Thomas Carlyle on Sir Walter Scott
This site from Fordham University provides Thomas Carlyle's (1795-1881 CE) comments on Walter Scott (1771-1832 CE). This site includes biographical information.
University of Pennsylvania
Univ. Of Pennsylvania: Works of Thomas Carlyle
The Digital Library provides links to the texts of 11 of Thomas Carlyle's works.
University of Pennsylvania
Project Gutenberg: The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
This site provides the text of "The Autobiography of Charles Darwin" by Charles Darwin.
University of Pennsylvania
Digital Library: Works of Charles Darwin
The Digital Library provides links to the texts of a dozen of works by Charles Darwing including "On the Origins of Species."
University of Pennsylvania
Digital Library Project: The Online Books Page
The Digital Library provides links to the texts of seven of Edward Fitzgerald's works.
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