* Before Armageddon: An Anthology of Victorian and Edwardian Imaginative Fiction Published Before 1914 ( 1975 )

As an editor he put forth a volume of Cameos from Walter Savage Landor ( with Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1874 ); a large Library of ( selections from ) American Literature ( with Ellen M Hutchinson, 11 vols, 1888 – 1890 ); a Victorian Anthology ( 1895 ); and an American Anthology, 1787-1899 ( 1900 ); the two last-named volumes being ancillary to a detailed and comprehensive critical study in prose of the whole body of English poetry from 1837, and of American poetry of the 19th century.

She also edited a Norton Critical Edition of George Eliot ’ s The Mill on the Floss and co-edited the Norton Anthology of English Literature and Victorian Literature and The Victorian Visual Imagination.

* A Victorian Anthology, Houghton, Mifflin and Company ( 1895 )

* Before Armageddon: An Anthology of Victorian and Edwardian Imaginative Fiction Published Before 1914 ( 1976 )

* Before Armageddon: An Anthology of Victorian and Edwardian Imaginative Fiction Published Before 1914 ( 1976 )

The Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's rule between 1837 and 1901 which signified the height of the British Industrial Revolution and the apex of the British Empire.

The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

* Victorian architecture 1837 and 1901 UK

In the middle 19th century, a nostalgic interest in pre-Cromwell Christmas traditions swept Victorian England following the publications of Davies Gilbert's Some Ancient Christmas Carols ( 1822 ), William B. Sandys's Selection of Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern ( 1833 ), and Thomas K. Hervey's The Book of Christmas ( 1837 ).

* Victorian Britain, 1837 – 1901, covering the later phases of the Gothic Revival, French influences, Classical and Renaissance revivals, Aestheticism, Japanese style, the continuing influence of China, India, and the Islamic world, the Arts and Crafts movement and the Scottish School.

Victorian fashion comprises the various fashions and trends in British culture that emerged and grew in province throughout the Victorian era and the reign of Queen Victoria, a period which would last from June 1837 to January 1901.

If Regency era is being used to describe the transition between Georgian and Victorian eras, the focus is on the pre-Victorian period from 1811, when the formal Regency began, through 1837 when Queen Victoria succeeded William IV.

Here it refers to novels written during the Romantic era in literary history, which runs from the late 18th century until the beginning of the Victorian era in 1837.

It was in the Victorian era ( 1837 – 1901 ) that the novel became the leading literary genre in English.

During the Victorian era a lot of new buildings and industry were established, such as Independent Chapel ( 1822 ), Holy Trinity ( 1836 – 37 ), Christ Church ( 1837 ), Castle Railway Station ( 1846 ), Wesleyan Chapel ( 1846 ), The Corn Exchange ( 1848 ), Methodist New Connexion Chapel ( 1848 ), W. N.

By the beginning of the Victorian period in 1837, the majority of Neolithic standing stones at Avebury had gone, having been either buried by pious locals in the 14th century or smashed up for building materials in the 17th and 18th.

In English, as a descriptor of anti-intellectualism, philistine — a person deficient in the culture of the Liberal Arts — was common British usage by the decade of 1820, which described the bourgeois, merchant middle class of the Victorian Era ( 1837 – 1901 ), whose wealth rendered them indifferent to culture.

St. Andrews is the birthplace of Thomas Storrow Brown, a businessman, journalist, and an officer of the 1837 Rebellion and Victorian artist Edward Mitchell Bannister.

Victorian morality is a distillation of the moral views of people living at the time of Queen Victoria's reign ( 1837 – 1901 ) and of the moral climate of the United Kingdom throughout the 19th century in general, which contrasted greatly with the morality of the previous Georgian period.

*** Victorian era ( 1837 – 1901 )

* Goldthorpe, Caroline: From Queen to Empress: Victorian Dress 1837 – 1877, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, ISBN 0-87099-535-9

* Goldthorpe, Caroline: From Queen to Empress: Victorian Dress 1837 – 1877, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, ISBN 0-87099-535-9

* Goldthorpe, Caroline: From Queen to Empress: Victorian Dress 1837 – 1877, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, ISBN 0-87099-535-9

As the Victorian era began, Darwin pressed on with writing his Journal, and in August 1837 began correcting printer's proofs.

In the United Kingdom, and former British colonies, a Victorian house generally means any house built during the reign of Queen Victoria ( 1837 — 1901 ).

Victoriana refers to items or material from the Victorian period ( 1837 – 1901 ), especially those particularly evocative of the design style and outlook of the time.

Critic William Kuhn argued that much of his fiction can be read as " the memoirs he never wrote ", revealing the inner life of a politician for whom the norms of Victorian public life appeared to represent a social straitjacket – particularly with regard to his allegedly " ambiguous sexuality.

Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889 ) was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets.

Mary Anne ( alternatively Mary Ann or Marian ) Evans ( 22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880 ), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

* John Ford Paterson ( 1851 – 1912 ), Scottish-Australian landscape painter ; elected president of Victorian Artists Society in 1902 ; highly regarded 1896 painting Evening in the Bush

Amongst those who followed these ideas were the English poets and painters that constituted the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who, from about 1850, opposed the dominant trend of industrial Victorian England, because of their " opposition to technical skill without inspiration " They were influenced by the writings of the art critic John Ruskin ( 1819 – 1900 ), who had strong feelings about the role of art in helping to improve the lives of the urban working classes, in the rapidly expanding industrial cities of Britain.

His grandfather, Simon Fraser, emigrated from Nova Scotia in 1853, becoming a successful pastoralist and speculator, as well as a member of the Victorian Parliament, the Federation Conventions of 1897 – 98 and the Australian Senate.

* 1869 – The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.

Victorian Infidels: the origins of the British Secularist Movement, 1791 – 1866.

The Victorian artist, Arthur Hacker ( September 25, 1858 – November 12, 1919 ), depicted Syrinx in his 1892 nude.

In recognition of his distinguised services to the Victorian community, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws ( honoris causa ) – LL. D ( h. c .) by Deakin University on 27 April 2010.

Sweeney Todd is a fictional character who first appeared as the murderer of the Victorian penny dreadful The String of Pearls ( 1846 – 1847 ).

The term is also used specifically to denote re-creation of the dances of the English Regency ( 1795 – 1820 ), American Civil War ( 1860s ), Victorian, and Ragtime eras.

Neo-Victorianism: The Victorians in the Twenty-First Century, 1999 – 2009 ( Palgrave Macmillan ; 2011 ) 323 pages ; looks at recent literary & cinematic, interest in the Victorian era, including magic, sexuality, theme parks, and the postcolonial

* Great Victorian Lives – An Era in Obituaries from The Times

Henry and Martha Grace had nine children in all: " the same number as Victoria and Albert – and in every respect they were the typical Victorian family ".

* Quiz: Victorian Etiquette – Educational Game, In the style of Monty Python

* February 1 – Joan Kirner becomes Victoria's first female Deputy Premier, after the resignation of Robert Fordham over the VEDC ( Victorian Economic Development Co-operation ) Crisis.

In the first sexual revolution ( 1870 – 1910 ), Victorian morality lost its universal appeal.

An Uneasy Victorian: Thackeray the Man, 1811 – 1863.

* The Victorian Web – Thackeray's Illustrations to Vanity Fair

Mary Elizabeth Braddon ( 4 October 1835 – 4 February 1915 ) was a British Victorian era popular novelist.

* Diamond ( 2003 ), Michael, Victorian Sensation, London: Anthem, ISBN 1-84331-150-X, pp. 197 – 208

Richard D ' Oyly Carte ( 3 May 1844 – 3 April 1901 ) was an English talent agent, theatrical impresario, composer and hotelier during the latter half of the Victorian era.

* William Allingham – Victorian poet.

* Video – Victorian agricultural engine, in steam, driving a threshing machine.