The name of Victorian Age comes from Queen Victoria (1819−1901). The era was preceded by the Georgian period and succeeded by the Edwardian period. The way of life changed completely: A way based on the ownership of land to a modern urban economy based on trade and manufacturing. This was a time of progress. The imperialism: this is a country of traders, new dominios appeared. More than a quarter of the world was British. Britain also had a very important fleet, which carry the goods to the metropolitan.

2. • The name of Victorian Age comes from Queen Victoria
(1819−1901).
• The era was preceded by the Georgian period and
succeeded by the Edwardian period
• The way of life changed completely: A way based on the
ownership of land to a modern urban economy based on
trade and manufacturing

3. The Victorian Age was a important period of changes:
– Middle clases emerge
– Development of science
– Industrial society
– Political reforms
– Working class wretched
– Religious movements
– The “novel” consolidates
– British empire

4. •Queen Victoria was born 1819
and died in 1901.
•She married with Prince Albert who
was her cousin.
•Victoria was the daughter of Prince
Edward and the granddaughter of
the King George III.
• Her reign was the longest in the
history of England; with 64 years.
•She boost the peace, and the
stability in all the Imperium.

5. • The victorian novel was written to entertain middle
classes.
• They were idealized portraits of the society. They
narrated in a realistic way their dificult lifes.
• Victorian novels is concerned with social reforms.

6. • The Brontës were a
nineteenth-century literary
family associated with
Haworth in the West Riding of
Yorkshire, England. They
originally published their
poems and novels under
masculine pseudonyms. Their
stories immediately attracted
attention, although not always
the best, for their passion and
originality.

7. • Charlotte Brontë was an
English novelist and poet, the
eldest of the three Brontë
sisters who survived into
adulthood, whose novels are
English literature standards.
She wrote Jane Eyre under
the pen name Currer Bell.

8. • Emily Brontë was born on 30
July 1818 in Thornton, near
Bradford in Yorkshire, to Maria
Branwell and Patrick Brontë.
She was the younger sister of
Charlotte Brontë and the fifth
of six children. In 1824, the
family moved to Haworth,
where Emily's father was
perpetual curate, and it was in
these surroundings that their
literary gifts flourished.

9. • Anne Brontë was a British
novelist and poet, the
youngest member of the
Brontë literary family.

10. • The real name of George Eliot
was Mary Ann, and she was an
English novelist, journalist and
translator, and one of the
leading writers of the Victorian
Age. She used a male pen
name, she said, to ensure her
works would be taken seriously,
but she wanted to escape the
stereotype of women only
writing lighthearted romances.

11. • She born the 22 of November in 1819 and dead the
22 of December in 1880
• She wrote novels and poems, some of his most
important works are Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on
the Floss (1860), Silas
Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel
Deronda (1876)

12. • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell,
often referred to simply
as Mrs Gaskell, was a British
novelist and short story
writer during the Victorian
era.
• She born the 29 of
September in 1810, and dies
the 12 of November in 1865.
• His most important work in
the past are the biography of
Charlotte Brontë, but in the
future, his novels have risen

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