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  2. Society and culture of the Victorian era - Wikipedia

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    The Victorian Church (2 vol 1966), covers all denominations online; Clark, G. Kitson The making of Victorian England (1963). online; Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, eds. The encyclopedia of the Victorian world: a reader's companion to the people, places, events, and everyday life of the Victorian era (Henry Holt, 1996) online

  3. Victorian morality - Wikipedia

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    Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and their children as an idealized family. Victorian morality is a distillation of the moral views of the middle class in 19th-century Britain, the Victorian era. Victorian values emerged in all social classes and reached all facets of Victorian living.

  4. Victorian era - Wikipedia

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    The British Empire had relatively peaceful relations with the other great powers. It participated in various military conflicts mainly against minor powers. The British Empire expanded during this period and was the predominant power in the world. Victorian society valued a high standard of personal conduct across all sections of society.

  5. Hannah Cullwick - Wikipedia

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    Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004. Diane Atkinson. Love and Dirt: The Marriage of Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick. New York: Macmillan, 2003 (ISBN 0-333-78071-X). Barry Reay. Watching Hannah: Sexuality, Horror and Bodily De-formation in Victorian England. Reaktion, 2002.

  6. Women in the Victorian era - Wikipedia

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    Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England (2004). Gleadle, Kathryn. British women in the nineteenth century (Bloomsbury, 2017) online. Gleadle, Kathryn. and Sarah Richardson (eds.). Women in British Politics, 1760-1860: The Power of the Petticoat (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2000) Gleadle, Kathryn.

  7. Landed gentry - Wikipedia

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    Journal of British Studies 48.3 (2009): 674-694. Rothery, Mark. "Communities of kin and English landed gentry families of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." Family & Community History 21.2 (2018): 112-128. online; Sayer, M. J. English Nobility: The Gentry, the Heralds and the Continental Context (Norwich, 1979) Stone, Lawrence. An ...

  8. Victorian cuisine - Wikipedia

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    Victorian England became known throughout Europe for its bland and unappetizing food but many housewives cooked in this fashion since it was the safest way to prepare food before refrigeration. [ 2 ] The Victorian breakfast was usually a heavy meal: sausages, preserves, bacon and eggs, served with bread rolls.

  9. Married Women's Property Act 1870 - Wikipedia

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    She promoted women's rights and in 1854 published A Brief Summary of the Laws in England concerning Women: together with a few observations thereon. She worked hard to reform the married women's property laws. As an artist, she also helped establish the Society for Female Artists in 1857.