History of Victorian Period
The Victorian age is generally agreed to stretch through the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901). It was an exciting period when many artistic styles, literary schools, as well as, social, political and religious movements thrived. It was a time of prosperity, wide-ranging imperial expansion, and great political reform. It was also a time, which today we associate with "prudishness" and "oppression". Without a doubt, it was an extraordinarily complex age, that has sometimes been called the Second English Renaissance. It is also the beginning of Modern Times. The Victorian age also marked the height of the British Industrial Revolution and the apex of the British Empire.
The social classes of England were newly reforming, and fomenting. There was a churning turmoil of the old hierarchical order, and the middle classes were steadily growing. The upper classes' composition was changing from simply hereditary aristocracy to a combination of nobility......
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