Encyclopedia - Victorian Morality: Encyclopedia - Victorian Morality
Victorian morality is a distillation of the moral views of people living at the time of Queen Victoria (reigned 1837 - 1901) in particula...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victorian Morality: Encyclopedia Ii - Victorian Morality - Victorian Morality
Victorian prudery sometimes went so far as to deem it improper to say "leg" in mixed company (the preferred euphemism if such must be men...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victorian Morality: Encyclopedia Ii - Victorian Morality - Historical Background
The term Victorian has acquired a range of connotations, including that of a particularly strict set of moral standards, which are often ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victorian Fashion: Encyclopedia - Victorian Fashion
The term "Victorian fashion" refers to fashion in clothing in the Victorian era, or the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901). It is stri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victorian Era: Encyclopedia - Victorian Era
The Victorian era of Great Britain is considered the height of the British industrial revolution and the apex of the British Empire. It i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victoria Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia - Victoria Of The United Kingdom
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria) (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 Ju...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victorianism: Encyclopedia - Victorianism
Victorianism is the name given to the attitudes, art and culture of the later two-thirds of the 19th century. This usage is strong within...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adventurer: Encyclopedia - Adventurer
Adventurer or adventuress, meaning one who takes part in a risky or speculative course of action for profit or position, or one who lives...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Augustus Egg: Encyclopedia - Augustus Egg
Augustus Leopold Egg (May 21, 1816 - March 26, 1863) was a Victorian artist best known for his modern triptych Past and Present (1858), w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victorian Fashion: Encyclopedia Ii - Victorian Fashion - Usefulness Of The Term
Those who have studied the period in detail would protest against vacuous generalizations. Clothing, décor, manners, and morals varied f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victorian Era: Encyclopedia Ii - Victorian Era - Prostitution
In the writings of Henry Mayhew, Charles Booth and others, prostitution began to be seen as a social problem, rather than just a fact of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victoria Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia Ii - Victoria Of The United Kingdom - Legacy
Queen Victoria was Britain's first modern monarch. Previous monarchs had been active players in the process of government. A series of le...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victorian Fashion: Encyclopedia Ii - Victorian Fashion - Historical Overview
Several general style trends of the Victorian era transcend any one facet of fashion, but rather had broad influence across clothing styl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victorian Fashion: Encyclopedia Ii - Victorian Fashion - Contemporary Stereotypes
Lytton Strachey writing to Virginia Woolf, November 8, 1912: Is it prejudice, do you think, that makes us hate the Victorians, or is it ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victorian Era: Encyclopedia Ii - Victorian Era - Politics
The period is ostensibly characterized as a long period of peace and economic, colonial, and industrial consolidation, temporarily disrup...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victorian Era: Encyclopedia Ii - Victorian Era - Politics
The period is ostensibly characterized as a long period of peace and economic, colonial, and industrial consolidation, temporarily disrup...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victoria Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia Ii - Victoria Of The United Kingdom - Early Life
Victoria's father, the Duke of Kent and Strathearn, was the fourth son of King George III. The Duke of Kent and Strathearn, like many oth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victorian Era: Encyclopedia Ii - Victorian Era - Events
In 1851 the Great Exhibition (the first World's Fair) was held in The Crystal Palace, with great success and international attention. In ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victorian Era: Encyclopedia Ii - Victorian Era - Science Technology And Engineering
The impetus of the industrial revolution had already occurred, but it was during this period that the full effects of industrialisation m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Family Values: Encyclopedia Ii - Family Values - Family Values In U.s. Politics
Since 1980, the Republican party has used the issue of family values to attract socially conservative voters, especially those in the Sou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victoria Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia Ii - Victoria Of The United Kingdom - Gladstone And Disraeli
In 1868, the Conservative Benjamin Disraeli entered office. He would later prove to be Victoria's favourite Prime Minister. His ministry,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victoria Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia Ii - Victoria Of The United Kingdom - Later Years
In 1887, the United Kingdom celebrated Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Victoria marked 20 June 1887 — the fiftieth anniversary of her access...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victoria Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia Ii - Victoria Of The United Kingdom - Style And Arms
Victoria's first official style as monarch was "Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victoria Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia Ii - Victoria Of The United Kingdom - Surname
Victoria belonged to the House of Hanover, whereby some assign the surname d'Este or the surname Guelph to her though she never needed to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victoria Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia Ii - Victoria Of The United Kingdom - Early Reign
King William IV died at the age of seventy-one on 20 June 1837, leaving the throne to Victoria. As the young queen had just turned eighte...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victoria Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia Ii - Victoria Of The United Kingdom - Marriage
The Queen married Prince Albert on 10 February 1840 at the Chapel Royal in St. James's Palace; four days before, Victoria granted her hus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victoria Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia Ii - Victoria Of The United Kingdom - Early Victorian Politics
Peel's ministry faced a crisis involving the repeal of the Corn Laws. Many Tories (by then known also as Conservatives) were opposed to t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victoria Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia Ii - Victoria Of The United Kingdom - Ireland
The young Queen Victoria fell in love with Ireland, choosing to holiday in Killarney in Kerry, in the process, launching the location as ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victoria Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia Ii - Victoria Of The United Kingdom - Middle Years
In 1851, the first World Fair, known as the Great Exhibition of 1851, was held. Organised by Prince Albert, the exhibition was officially...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victoria Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia Ii - Victoria Of The United Kingdom - Widowhood
The Prince Consort died in 1861, devastating Victoria, who entered a semi-permanent state of mourning and wore black for the remainder of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Family Values: Encyclopedia Ii - Family Values - Historical Perspective
As societies have shifted economically from agriculture to industry, extended families have largely given way to nuclear families. Family...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Revival Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Revival Architecture - History
Gothic Revival architecture - Survival and revival. Gothic architecture did not die out completely in the 15th century but lingered on,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Revival Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Revival Architecture - Gothic Revival Buildings
Image:Center Regents Park300.JPG Alban Towers, Washington, D.C. Albert Memorial, London All Saints Church, Margaret Street, London Cathe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Psychoanalysis: American History Dictionary - Psychoanalysis
Definition and meaning of psychoanalysis:   psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud's ideas affected the thinking and behavior of the pr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A Doll's House: Encyclopedia Ii - A Doll's House - Plot
A Doll's House is a scathing criticism of the traditional roles of men and women in Victorian marriage. As Ibsen wrote in his initial not...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A Christmas Carol: Encyclopedia Ii - A Christmas Carol - Plot Synopsis
A Christmas Carol is a Victorian morality tale of an old and bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who undergoes a profound experience of redem...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Plural Marriage: Encyclopedia Ii - Plural Marriage - Critical Views
According to sympathizers, Smith, Young and other prominent Church leaders were reluctant to embrace the practice of plural marriage espe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - English Literature - Restoration Literature
Main article: Restoration literature Restoration literature includes both Paradise Lost and the Earl of Rochester's Sodom, the high spiri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde: Encyclopedia Ii - The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde - Analysis
This novel has become a central concept in Western culture of the inner conflict of humanity's sense of good and evil. It has also been n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Country Wife: Encyclopedia Ii - The Country Wife - Critical History
From its creation until the mid-20th century, The Country Wife was subject to both aesthetic praise and moral outrage. Many critics throu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Point Loma Nazarene University: Encyclopedia Ii - Point Loma Nazarene University - History Of Point Loma Site
The Theosophical Society began its settlement on the barren and windswept slopes of Point Loma in 1896. Led by Katherine Tingley, the gro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Plural Marriage: Encyclopedia Ii - Plural Marriage - Critical Views
According to sympathizers, Smith, Young and other prominent Church leaders were reluctant to embrace the practice of plural marriage espe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mister Sinister: Encyclopedia Ii - Mister Sinister - Character History
Mister Sinister - Origin. Nathaniel Essex was a 19th-century scientist in Victorian England obsessed with Darwin’s theory of evolutio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toronto: Encyclopedia - Toronto
 - Total (2001 census)  - Metropolitan (2005)  - Population Growth  - Rank 2,481,494 (source) 5,304,100 (source) 1.9%...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toronto: Encyclopedia Ii - Toronto - City Issues
Toronto - Crime. Crime (including violent and gang crime) in Toronto has been generally decreasing over the past decade. Toronto's viol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lewis Carroll: Encyclopedia Ii - Lewis Carroll - Allegations Of Pedophilia
Dodgson’s undeniable fondness for little girls (especially Alice Liddell, from whom it is often said he may have derived his own "Alice...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toronto: Encyclopedia Ii - Toronto - City Issues
Toronto - Crime. Crime (including violent crime) in Toronto has been generally decreasing over the past decade. Toronto's violent crime...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Dwarf: Encyclopedia Ii - The Dwarf - Plot
The main character of this story is a Dwarf, 26 inches high, at the court of an Italian City-state in the renaissance. The exact location...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Singapore Gay History: Encyclopedia Ii - Singapore Gay History - The 1990s
The heady days of unmitigated expansion of available gay spaces experienced in the 80's were curbed to some degree in the early 90's. Sin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lewis Carroll: Encyclopedia Ii - Lewis Carroll - Allegations Of Pedophilia
Dodgson’s undeniable fondness for little girls (especially Alice Liddell, from whom it is often said he may have derived his own "Alice...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toronto: Encyclopedia Ii - Toronto - Economy
Toronto is a port of entry, as well as being an important commercial, financial, and industrial hub. It is the banking and stock exchange...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toronto: Encyclopedia Ii - Toronto - Transport
Toronto - Railways. Toronto is served by intercity VIA Rail, Ontario Northland, and Amtrak trains through Union Station, a grand neocla...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toronto: Encyclopedia Ii - Toronto - Education
Toronto - Universities and colleges. Toronto is home to a number of educational institutions, including the largest university in Canad...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lewis Carroll: Encyclopedia Ii - Lewis Carroll - Inventions
Lewis Carroll seems to have thought a lot about how to solve some common technical problems of the day. The fact that he was able to unde...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lewis Carroll: Encyclopedia Ii - Lewis Carroll - Jack The Ripper Theories
Many wild theories have been woven around the life of Lewis Carroll. Perhaps the most extreme emerged in 1996 when author Richard Wallace...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toronto: Encyclopedia Ii - Toronto - Attractions
Toronto's most famous landmark is the CN Tower, a 553 metre (1,815 ft) tall steel and concrete transmission tower, the tallest free-stand...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toronto: Encyclopedia Ii - Toronto - Demographics
Toronto is one of the most multicultural cities in the world. In 2004, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) ranked Toronto sec...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toronto: Encyclopedia Ii - Toronto - Geography And Climate
The City of Toronto covers an area of 641 km² (247 square miles) and is bounded by Lake Ontario to the south, Etobicoke Creek and Highw...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toronto: Encyclopedia Ii - Toronto - Government
Torontonians elect representatives to the federal, provincial, and municipal levels of government. 22 Members of Parliament (MPs) represe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Singapore Gay History: Encyclopedia Ii - Singapore Gay History - Under British Colonial Administration
With the advent of British colonisation and the imposition of their legal system which criminalised sodomy, there must have been instance...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Singapore Gay History: Encyclopedia Ii - Singapore Gay History - After World War Ii
The overthrow of the Japanese in August 1945 by Allied forces resulted in jubilation, tinged with regret, amongst the gay population. The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Singapore Gay History: Encyclopedia Ii - Singapore Gay History - Independence
Along the tortuous road to complete independence from the United Kingdom in 1959 and subsequently from the Malaysian federation in 1965 c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Singapore Gay History: Encyclopedia Ii - Singapore Gay History - The 1970s
With the prosperity that prudent policies of promoting foreign multinational investment brought, while other regional countries were mire...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Singapore Gay History: Encyclopedia Ii - Singapore Gay History - The 1980s
The early 80s was a period of widespread prosperity and new freedoms which saw the opening of clubs like Shadows, Marmota, Legend and Nic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Singapore Gay History: Encyclopedia Ii - Singapore Gay History - The Japanese Occupation
When the Japanese imperial army invaded Singapore in February 1942 and renamed it Syonan-to, the British legal system was toppled overnig...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Singapore Gay History: Encyclopedia Ii - Singapore Gay History - The Pre-british Era
There exist no known written records of same-sex love in pre-colonial Singapore and, as a corollary, of any 'movement' in reaction to per...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toronto: Encyclopedia Ii - Toronto - Culture
Toronto - Exhibits. Toronto has a world-renowned museum, the Royal Ontario Museum (frequently referred to as "the ROM"), and one of Nor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toronto: Encyclopedia Ii - Toronto - Toronto And Area
Toronto - City suburbs and neighbourhoods. Main article: List of neighbourhoods in Toronto From 1954 to 1998, the City of Toronto was...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toronto: Encyclopedia Ii - Toronto - Nomenclature
Toronto - Nicknames. Nicknames for Toronto include: T.O. – an acrostic for Toronto, Ontario, or a false acrostic for Toronto; pronou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toronto: Encyclopedia Ii - Toronto - Shopping
Many specialty shops can be found in Toronto near Bloor & Bay, including exclusive boutiques and toy stores. Thanks possibly to the c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toronto: Encyclopedia Ii - Toronto - Education
Toronto - Universities. Toronto is home to a number of educational institutions, including the largest university in Canada, the Univer...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lewis Carroll: Encyclopedia Ii - Lewis Carroll - Upbringing
Dodgson's family was predominantly northern English, with some Irish connections. Conservative and High Church Anglican, most of Dodgson'...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lewis Carroll: Encyclopedia Ii - Lewis Carroll - Academic Life
He left Rugby at the end of 1850 and, after an interval which remains unexplained, went on in January 1851 to Oxford, attending his fathe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lewis Carroll: Encyclopedia Ii - Lewis Carroll - Photography
In 1856, Dodgson took up the new art form of photography, first under the influence of his uncle Skeffington Lutwidge, and later his Oxfo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lewis Carroll: Encyclopedia Ii - Lewis Carroll - Character
The young adult Charles Dodgson was about six foot tall, slender and handsome in a soft-focused dreamy sort of way, with curling brown ha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toronto: Encyclopedia Ii - Toronto - Nomenclature
Toronto - Nicknames. Nicknames for Toronto include: T.O. – an acrostic for Toronto, Ontario, or a false acrostic for Toronto; pronou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toronto: Encyclopedia Ii - Toronto - Shopping
Many specialty shops can be found in Toronto near Bloor & Bay, including exclusive boutiques and toy stores. Thanks possibly to the c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toronto: Encyclopedia Ii - Toronto - Geography And Climate
The City of Toronto covers an area of 641 km² (247 square miles) and is bounded by Lake Ontario to the south, Etobicoke Creek and Highw...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toronto: Encyclopedia Ii - Toronto - Government
Torontonians elect representatives to the federal, provincial, and municipal levels of government. 22 Members of Parliament (MPs) represe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toronto: Encyclopedia Ii - Toronto - Economy
Toronto is a port of entry, as well as being an important commercial, financial, and industrial hub. It is the banking and stock exchange...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toronto: Encyclopedia Ii - Toronto - Transport
Toronto - Railways. Toronto is served by intercity VIA Rail, Ontario Northland, and Amtrak trains through Union Station, a grand neocla...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lewis Carroll: Encyclopedia Ii - Lewis Carroll - Writing Career
During his writing career, Carroll wrote poetry and short stories, sending them to various magazines and enjoying moderate success. Betwe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lewis Carroll: Encyclopedia Ii - Lewis Carroll - Jack The Ripper Theories
Many wild theories have been woven around the life of Lewis Carroll. Perhaps the most extreme emerged in 1996 when author Richard Wallace...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lewis Carroll: Encyclopedia Ii - Lewis Carroll - Upbringing
Dodgson's family was predominantly northern English, with some Irish connections. Conservative and High Church Anglican, most of Dodgson'...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lewis Carroll: Encyclopedia Ii - Lewis Carroll - Academic Life
He left Rugby at the end of 1850 and, after an interval which remains unexplained, went on in January 1851 to Oxford, attending his fathe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lewis Carroll: Encyclopedia Ii - Lewis Carroll - Photography
In 1856, Dodgson took up the new art form of photography, first under the influence of his uncle Skeffington Lutwidge, and later his Oxfo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lewis Carroll: Encyclopedia Ii - Lewis Carroll - Character
The young adult Charles Dodgson was about six foot tall, slender and handsome in a soft-focused dreamy sort of way, with curling brown ha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toronto: Encyclopedia Ii - Toronto - Toronto And Area
Toronto - City suburbs and neighbourhoods. Main articles: List of neighbourhoods in Toronto, and [[{{{2}}}]], and [[{{{3}}}]], and [[{...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toronto: Encyclopedia Ii - Toronto - Culture
Toronto - Exhibits. Toronto has a world-renowned museum, the Royal Ontario Museum (frequently referred to as "the ROM"), and one of Nor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lewis Carroll: Encyclopedia Ii - Lewis Carroll - Inventions
Lewis Carroll seems to have thought a lot about how to solve some common technical problems of the day. The fact that he was able to unde...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lewis Carroll: Encyclopedia Ii - Lewis Carroll - Allegations Of Drug Abuse
An allegation arose at some point that Carroll used the fungus ergot, which is what LSD was eventually derived from, can induce psychoact...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toronto: Encyclopedia Ii - Toronto - Demographics
Toronto is one of the most multicultural cities in the world. In 2004, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) ranked Toronto sec...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lewis Carroll: Encyclopedia Ii - Lewis Carroll - Writing Career
During his writing career, Carroll wrote poetry and short stories, sending them to various magazines and enjoying moderate success. Betwe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toronto: Encyclopedia Ii - Toronto - Attractions
Toronto's most famous landmark is the CN Tower, a 553 metre (1,815 ft) tall steel and concrete transmission tower, the tallest free-stand...   » Read the article

Article - Popular Pages Sitemap Iii - V
This is a sitemap for Popular Pages III - V . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word. ...   » Read the article