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The Victorian era was an important time for the development of science and the Victorians had a mission to describe and classify the entire natural world. Much of this writing does not rise to the level of being regarded as literature but one book in particular, Charles Darwin 's On the Origin of Species , remains famous.
During the Victorian era, Britain was the cultural capital of the English-speaking world, including the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Victorian performance and print culture ...
Penny Dreadfuls and comics : English periodicals for children from Victorian times to the present day. London: Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood. ISBN 0-905209-47-8. Casey, Christopher (2010). "Common Misperceptions: The Press and Victorian Views of Crime". Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 41 (3 - Winter 2011). Cambridge: MIT Press: 367 ...
Varney the Vampire; or, the Feast of Blood is a Victorian-era serialized gothic horror story variously attributed to James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest.It first appeared in 1845–1847 as a series of weekly cheap pamphlets of the kind then known as "penny dreadfuls".
Mary de Morgan helped to make the Victorian era prominent in literature. [2] In her short stories, she is able to use "mystery, pathos, and comedy" to create entertaining and imaginative literature for all to enjoy. [2] In addition, de Morgan uses both female and male protagonists in her writing exhibiting her belief in equality among the sexes ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikiquote; ... English language novels from the 19th-century Victorian era ... A Story of the Year 2236;
Ashbee was also identified as Walter by a May 2000 Channel 4 documentary on British TV, Walter: The Secret Life of a Victorian Pornographer – and in 2001 Ian Gibson's The Erotomaniac: The Secret Life of Henry Spencer Ashbee (2001, ISBN 0-571-19619-5) provided a detailed review of circumstantial evidence arguing that Ashbee wrote My Secret ...