Voices of Victorian England
eBook - PDF

Voices of Victorian England

Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life

  1. 344 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Voices of Victorian England

Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life

About this book

The Victorian age was a period of transition as Britain industrialized and society underwent profound changes. Here, contemporary voices provide students with an up-close look at this pivotal time. Voices of Victorian England illuminates the character, personalities, and events of the era through excerpts from primary documents produced between 1837 and 1901. By allowing Queen Victoria's contemporaries to speak for themselves, this work brings the achievements and conflicts that occurred during the queen's long reign alive for high school and college students as well as the general public. Excerpts represent literary giants such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, and Anthony Trollope. The book covers the worlds of politics, religion, economics, and science, and addresses subjects such as women's issues and the royal family. Documents include letters, poems, speeches, polemics, reviews, novels, official reports, and self-help guides, as well as descriptive narratives of people and events from England, Scotland, Ireland, and, where pertinent, America and continental Europe. Spelling has been modernized and unfamiliar terms defined, and questions and commentary provide background and context for each document. In addition, the book offers tools that will help readers effectively evaluate a document's meaning and importance.

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Information

Publisher
Greenwood
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780313386886
eBook ISBN
9780313386893
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction: Victorian Britain
  6. Evaluating and Interpreting Primary Documents
  7. Chronology
  8. DOCUMENTS OF VICTORIAN BRITAIN
  9. Appendix 1: Biographical Sketches of Important Individuals Mentioned in Text
  10. Appendix 2: Glossary of Terms Mentioned in Text
  11. Appendix 3: Victorian Ministries, 1835–1902
  12. Select Bibliography
  13. Index