The Victorian Age

1. Economic prosperity
2. Social injustices
   1. Labour exploitation
3. The Great Exhibition, 1851

1. Strict morality / Rigid standards of behaviour: duty, hard work, respectability and charity.

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   • http://www.parafrasando.it/TESINE/The-victorian-age.html
2. Child labour exploitation
3. Prudery / The fallen women and children prostitution

   Annotations:

   • https://listverse.com/2016/05/03/10-facts-about-prostitution-in-the-victorian-era/

1. The women question: the suffragettes
2. Reform bills
3. The Trade Unions, 1882
4. The Education system

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   • http://www.epertutti.com/inglese/The-education-in-the-Victorian41259.php

1. Early Victorian: Charles Dickens - social/humanitarian
2. Late Victorian: Hardy, Wilde - dissatisfaction/desecration of values
3. Mid Victorian: Bronte sisters, Stevenson - Romantic and Gothic traditions/the double.

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• http://www.parafrasando.it/TESINE/The-victorian-age.html

1. Colonial expansion
2. Jingoism
3. The American Civil War - 1861/65: Abolition of slavery