Dickens was not for nothing the most theatrical of the great Victorian writers.

Victorian writers interpreted this as an anticipatory coronation in preparation for his ultimate succession to the throne of Wessex.

Category: Victorian women writers

Category: Victorian women writers

Category: Victorian women writers

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.

Category: Victorian women writers

These negative qualities provided extensive material for fiction writers in the Victorian era, and John remains a recurring character within Western popular culture, primarily as a villain in films and stories depicting the Robin Hood legends.

In Victorian Britain, some writers such as Robert Knox,

Category: Victorian women writers

One of the most popular and influential writers of the Victorian period.

Category: Victorian women writers

Category: Victorian women writers

Category: Victorian women writers

In Victorian England such ideas and practices were considered shocking and unacceptable ; they were universally condemned even by the most radical of medical writers.

Category: Victorian women writers

Category: Victorian women writers

Category: Victorian women writers

It received acclaim from Blackmore's contemporary, Margaret Oliphant, and as well from later Victorian writers including Robert Louis Stevenson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Thomas Hardy.

Of the Victorian writers in blank verse, the most prominent are Tennyson and Robert Browning.

* Michael Matthew Kaylor, Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians: Hopkins, Pater and Wilde ( 2006 ), a 500-page scholarly volume that situates Pater among the Victorian writers of Uranian poetry and prose ( the author has made this volume available in a free, open-access, PDF version ).

Similarly, Sarah Gilbert sees the theme of feminine sexuality and authority realised in Ayesha as critical to the novel's success: " Unlike the women earlier Victorian writers had idealised or excoriated, She was neither an angel nor a monster.

The Victorian writers whom Wolfe viewed as his models had often written their novels in serial installments.

The tradition of sports reporting attracting some of the finest writers in journalism can be traced to the coverage of sport in Victorian England, where several modern sports-such as association football, cricket, athletics and rugby-were first organized and codified into something resembling what we would recognize today.

Pound, though briefly, embraced Imagism stating that it was an important step away from the verbose style of Victorian literature and suggested that it " is the sort of American stuff I can show here in Paris without its being ridiculed ".

This resulted in formal, planned developments such as King Street, Portland Street, Saint Marnock Street and latterly John Finnie Street ; the last often suggested as one of the finest Victorian planned streets in Scotland.

In 1924 the League suggested the station be called " Hugheston ", but in February 1925, shortly before the station opened, Victorian Railways decided its name would be " Hughesdale ".

The Outer Circle railway was first advocated by a group known as the Upper Yarra Railway League in 1867 who suggested that the Gippsland Railway could be brought into Melbourne via the outer suburbs, but the term itself was first conceived in 1873 by Engineer-in-Chief of the Victorian Railways, Thomas Higinbotham who suggested an " outer circle route ".

During one visit he became closely acquainted with Victorian writer Hall Caine, with whom it has been suggested he had an affair.

Wren exercised considerable influence in Victorian politics and business, but he was not as powerful as subsequent legend has suggested.

In 1924 the League suggested the station be called " Hugheston ", but in February 1925, shortly before the station opened, Victorian Railways decided its name would be " Hughesdale ".

The latter explanation is suggested by Victorian Ordnance Survey maps which show the ancient site of an early Christian chapel dedicated to St. Margaret.

In Victoria on 21 December 2011, legislation was passed by the Victorian Parliament allowing new trials where there is " fresh and compelling DNA evidence, where the person acquitted subsequently admits to the crime, or where it becomes clear that key witnesses have given false evidence ".

When the Victorian state government ( controlled by the Australian Labor Party ) announced plans to end this grazing, the then federal government, controlled by a coalition of conservative parties who are the ALP's traditional opponents, floated the idea of using national cultural heritage powers ( on the basis of the cultural place given to the mountain cattleman, notably through The Man from Snowy River ) to override the state decision.

The " new " hall ( replacing that in the front quadrangle ) is built on land given by Benjamin Jowett, a Victorian master of the college.

The author describing the alien deployment of poisonous, ground hugging, black vapour: “ Another bank drove over Ealing, and surrounded a little island of survivors on Castle Hill, alive, but unable to escape .” ' Castle Hill ' was the name given in the authors time to the Victorian housing estate that sits upon Castlebar Hill and the original name of West Ealing railway station.

In the many discussions that I held with such officials up to the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the President's Science Adviser, not one Victorian demurrer was ever voiced ; and a great deal of helpful encouragement was given ... The idea of government censorship of the Pioneer 10 plaque is now so well documented and firmly entrenched that no statement from the designers of the plaque to the contrary can play any role in influencing the prevailing opinion.

On this trip to exhume Burke and Wills ' remains, Howitt presented three breastplates commissioned by the Victorian Exploration Committee to the Yandruwandha people in appreciation of the assistance they had given to Burke, Wills and King.

The approval was given by the Victorian executive to extend the highway west from Melbourne through Geelong, Camperdown, Warrnambool and Portland to the South Australian border in January 1922.

However, Sharp did accurately note such lyrics in his field notebooks, which, given the prudery of the Victorian era could never have been openly published, thus preserving them for posterity.

The Trust was given responsibility for the operation and programming of the publicly owned performing arts spaces that make up the Victorian Arts Centre – the Theatres Building beneath the Spire, Hamer Hall and the Sidney Myer Music Bowl.

Resurgam ( latin: " I shall rise again ") is the name given to two early Victorian submarines designed and built in Britain by Reverend George Garrett as a weapon to penetrate the chain netting placed around ship hulls to defend against attack by torpedo vessels.

£ 7, 000 from the Salad Days profits — a large sum in those days — was given to the School towards the purchase and conversion of two large adjoining Victorian villas at 1 and 2 Downside Road in Clifton.

In South Australia, the name bluestone is given to a form of slate which is much less durable than Victorian bluestone, but was valued for its decorative appearance.

Bradford's verse was outspokenly homoerotic, but also remarkably popular during his lifetime given the prudery of Victorian England.

In 1985 he was given the honorary British award of Royal Victorian Chain.

It was given to the University of Wales in 1963 by owners and art-collectors, Margaret and Gwendoline Davies, the granddaughters of Victorian tycoon, David Davies Llandinam.

The college grew to two campuses in 1962 when it was given, holding two city blocks of Queen Anne-style Victorian mansions, in Los Angeles next to the University of Southern California.

The plans also entailed the complete demolition and rebuilding of Glasgow Royal Infirmary, however the scheme was eventually scaled back and the original Victorian hospital was given an indefinite stay of execution.

Old Billingsgate Market is the name given to what is now a hospitality and events venue in the City of London, based in the Victorian building that was originally Billingsgate Fish Market, the world's largest fish market.

Whilst most of its historical buildings were lost to the great fire on 14 June 1667, one notable Tudor-era house remains ( reportedly given to Anne of Cleves as part of her divorce from Henry VIII and thus titled Anne of Cleves House ) as well as many interesting Victorian buildings.

Recently, this proposal was given approval by the Victorian Government, and work has commenced.

Some laws require notice to be given for these clauses to be effective, others prohibit unfair clauses altogether ( e. g. Victorian Fair Trading Act 1999 ).

Historian and associate professor of Wollongong University John McQuilton states that the lack of monitoring for burial processes was odd, given Victorian society's normally brilliant attention to detail.

As Knight was between 18 and 21, he was classed as a young adult offender under Victorian law and also because at the time Victoria did not have life without parole, he was given the 27 year minimum.

Funds raised from donations, ticket, and candle sales are given to Vision Australia ( formerly the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind, RVIB ).