The Victorian era in England was a time of great contrasts, as the country experienced rapid industrialization and scientific advancement alongside widespread poverty. Queen Victoria ruled from 1837 to 1901 during the height of the British Empire. Notable developments included the growth of cities and factories during the Industrial Revolution, major scientific and medical discoveries, and the works of prominent English writers like Charles Dickens. However, social classes remained deeply divided, as the working classes and poor faced difficult living and working conditions. Women also experienced inequality and lacked many legal rights during this traditional period of English history.

1. VICTORIAN TIMES Good and evil… Scientific discoveries… Technological development… Mystery… Power… Poverty… Hipocrisy… A traditional society full of contrasts and contradictions…

2. Queen Victoria 1837-1901

4. Prince Albert She married her cousin Prince Albert 1840. Albert died in 1861. They had nine children.

5. The British Empire at its highest

6. The Industrial Revolution Steam-powered engines… Factories… The train… Growth of cities… Creation of universities in different towns…

9. The Great Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park (London)

10. Wealth, art and beauty: monuments and museums in Victorian England

15. Great English and Irish writers Charles Dickens Oscar Wilde George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) Elizabeth Gaskell Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë Anne Brontë Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

16. Bram Stoker Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas Hardy Lewis Carroll

17. Great artists John William Waterhouse

18. Dante Gabriel Rosetti

19. William Turner

21. Scientific and medical advances Vaccinations against smallpox Discovery of aneasthesia Advances in surgery New hospitals and modern nursing (improved by women such as Florence Nightingale)

23. The Irish Famine (1845-1850)

24. Social classes and life conditions Aristocracy and owners of the land Factory owners The peasants, servants and factory workers The Workhouse

26. Learning conditions Public schools Ragged schools

27. Working conditions

28. Housing conditions

31. Women condition The “angel” of the house… the weak, fragile lady…

32. The poor and destitute women: the servants, the factory workers, the mine workers, the peasants, the prostitutes, the “mad” women…

33. Women advances Elizabeth Garret, first woman doctor in England

34. The Lond School of Medicine for women

35. The Suffrage movement