THE VICTORIAN PERIOD

Glria Vazquez Vives 4rt ESO English

QUEEN VICTORIA

She was born in London; 24 May , 1819. She was the only daughter of Edward, Duke of Kent. When she was younger, she enjoyed painting, drawing and writing in her diary. When King William IV died in 1837, she became the queen, at the age of 18 years. The people liked her from the start. First, Victoria didnt know a lot about how to govern, but she made a friend, Lord Melbourne. He helped her. At the age of 21, Victoria married with her cousin, Albert of Saxe-Courg Gotha. Victoria was Queen for over 60 years. She lived to see the start of the 20th century, dying in January 1901.

WRITERS OF THE TIME

Charles Dickens (18121870) was dominated the first part of Victoria's reign.

William Thackeray (18111863) he wrote the famous work Vanity Fair .

George Eliot's (181980). Thomas Hardy (18401928).

Robert Browning (181289) and Alfred Tennyson (180992) were the most famous poets of the Victorian Period.
Gerard Manley Hopkins (184489). Algernon Charles Swinburne(18371909) is also considered an important literary figure of the period

SCIENCE

The change from "natural philosophy" and "natural history" to "science. The shift from gentlemen and clerical naturalists to, for the first time, professional "scientists". The development and eventual diffusion of belief in natural laws and ongoing progress, secularization, growing interaction between science, government and industry, the formalization of science education and growing internationalism of science.

DISCOVERY AND INVENTIONS

There were many important inventions and discoveries made in Britain during the Victorian period (Examples):

The pedal-driven bicycle= velocipede (1838)

The first postage stamp

DISCOVERY AND INVENTIONS

First Olympic Games (October 1850) The first incandescent light bulb (1878) The single piece, ceramic toilet (1885)

DISCOVERY AND INVENTIONS

Telephone First chocolate Easter egg The first jelly babies (1864)