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English Literature: Victorian Era

A guide for academic English Literature and related literatures.

Queen Victoria

 

Victoria, in full Alexandrina Victoria,  (born May 24, 1819, Kensington Palace, London, England—died January 22, 1901, Osborne, near Cowes, Isle of Wight) was the queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1837–1901) and empress of India (1876–1901). She was the last of the house of Hanover and gave her name to an era, the Victorian Age. During her reign the British monarchy took on its modern ceremonial character. She and her husband, Prince Consort Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, had nine children, through whose marriages were descended many of the royal families of Europe.

Works Cited:

"Victoria." Britannica Academic, Encyclopædia Britannica, 22 Apr. 2024. academic.eb.com/levels/collegiate/article/Victoria/108774. Accessed 6 Dec. 2024.

Featured Novels & Poetry

What is Victorian Era Literature?

Featured Victorian Authors

  • Mary Shelley
  • Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Charlotte Brontë
  • Anne Brontë
  • Emily Brontë
  • George Elliot aka Mary Ann Evans
  • Charles Dickens
  • Lord Alfred Tennyson
  • Rudyard Kipling
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Lewis Carroll
  • Bram Stoker
  • Robert Louis Stevenson
  • H.G. Wells (Herbert George Wells)
  • Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
  • Thomas Hardy
  • William Makepeace Thackeray