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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 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 - 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 - 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 - 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

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

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

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