Victorian Era Life

When Queen Victoria stepped onto the throne of Great Britain and Ireland in 1837, gone were the days when the monarch had supreme authority over the kingdom. Victoria ruled at the head of a government with which she was meant to converse, debate, and ultimately guide, and it was a job she sometimes struggled to perform. Victoria described herself as an emotional creature and blamed her gender for what she believed were her shortcomings as a monarch.

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine, and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. The person responsible was never identified, but the character created by the press to fill that gap has become far more famous than any of these five women. For more than a century, newspapers have been keen to tell us that "the Ripper" preyed on prostitutes. Not only is this untrue, as historian Hallie Rubenhold has discovered, but it has prevented the real stories of these fascinating women from being told.

Judith Flanders, one of Britain's foremost social historians, explores the world portrayed so vividly in Dickens' novels, showing life on the streets of London in colorful, fascinating detail. From the moment Charles Dickens, the century's best-loved English novelist and London's greatest observer, arrived in the city in 1822, he obsessively walked its streets, recording its pleasures, curiosities, and cruelties.

We all know that the best way to study a foreign language is to go to a country where it's spoken, but can the same immersion method be applied to history? How do interactions with antique objects influence perceptions of the modern world?

Like her previous books, this book will be the result of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life, and the conditions in which most people lived, so often left out of history books. This period of mid-Victorian London encompasses a huge range of subjects.

In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the 20th century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday life and challenged traditional Victorian beliefs about courtship, love, and marriage.

Discover the Mind That Made the Modern World The Victorians did not simply build an empire—they built a conscience. In an age of restraint and revelation, they turned discipline into virtue, silence into dignity, and guilt into a form of grace. The Victorian Mindset uncovers the psychological machinery behind that moral world, tracing how self-control became salvation and introspection replaced faith. From diaries and drawing rooms to asylums and deathbeds, Richard Fleischman explores how the nineteenth century transformed work into worship, desire into duty, and memory into moral order. ...

In 1882, Lady Felicity Armstrong finds herself in a precarious position after her stepmother's shocking murder leaves her with barely enough income to survive. As she navigates the grim realities of life at Rosendale Manor, a hidden treasure in her birth mother’s dressing table ignites a flicker of hope for a brighter future. Unfortunately, Felicity must leave her childhood home and is forced to accept residence in a rustic cottage in the village of Tolwich. With the help of her spirited maid, Millie, Felicity learns to adapt to a life stripped of luxury. When an old acquaintance, Lord ...

Discover 100 brilliant quotes from Oscar Wilde on life, love, art, and temptation. The ultimate collection of his most famous epigrams and witty observations. The Ultimate Oscar Wilde Collection: 100 Epigrams on Life, Love, and the Art of Being Yourself. Unlock the genius of Oscar Wilde, the undisputed master of wit and paradox, with this essential collection of his most brilliant and timeless quotes. More than mere clever lines, these aphorisms are the distilled philosophy of Aestheticism, challenging you to live a life less ordinary. Inside, Discover the Wisdom to: Invert Morality: ...

Among the ton’s desires behind masks of propriety, fiery Victoria Sinclair treads a delicate line between duty and desire. By day she follows the rigid expectations of aristocracy but by night she surrenders to her true passion: theatre, where she spins scandalous tales of spirited heroines and irresistible rakes. Yet, when her family’s and the elite’s norms force her into an arranged marriage with an unknown Lord, she finds herself trapped in a game of lost dreams and hidden passions. When she realises that her betroth knows her secret… Will she dare to confess the truth and ...

During the upheavals of 2007-9, the chairman of the Federal Reserve had the name of a Victorian icon on the tip of his tongue: Walter Bagehot. Banker, man of letters, inventor of the Treasury bill, and author of Lombard Street, the still-canonical guide to stopping a run on the banks, Bagehot prescribed the doctrines that - decades later - inspired the radical responses to the world's worst financial crises.

A nearly perfect historical fiction book set in the quaint, deeply textured landscapes of New England during the emotional throes of the latter half of the 19th Century. "Angels We Never See" delicately balances the reality of human suffering and the enduring power of familial strength. The Story:Our narrative commences following the harsh aftermath of the American Civil War. Meet Stella Killingsworth, our strong yet heartbroken heroine, who finds herself inconsolable after the loss of her beloved brother, Thomas. With her brother's death casting a relentless shadow over her world, Stella ...

A Charming Yet Mysterious Tale of 19th Century Stonemarket Small Town Mystery is a gripping tale that transports readers to the quaint and mysterious town of Stonemarket, nestled deep within the serene English countryside of the late 19th century. Secrets and Shadows Amongst the Rustic Charm This intriguing mystery novel spins a complex web of deceit and crime around its central characters, the successful partners Anthony Babin and Milford Rutherford. Their usual routine is disrupted by the arrival of a ghost from their past, the elusive Swanson, whose intentions of revealing an old, hidden...

Modern society tends to portray men of history to be great saints or great sinners. In fact, biographers are often inclined, depending on their personal predilections, to portray their subjects as one of these two extremes, especially when someone is seen by a certain group as an example of religious ideals or values. Writers are often afraid that if any of the person's mistakes come to light, it will somehow disqualify them from being admired.

Due to horrible physical deformities, he spent much of his life as a fairground freak. He was hounded, persecuted, and starving, until his fortune changed and he was rescued, housed, and fed by the distinguished surgeon, Frederick Treves. The subject of several books, a Broadway hit, and a film, Joseph Merrick has become part of popular mythology. Here, in this fully revised edition containing much fresh information, are the true and un-romanticized facts of his life.

London, 1857: Two teenage girls holding a sign that says "Fugitive Slaves" ask for money on the corner of Blackman Street. After a constable accosts them and charges them with begging, they end up in court, where newspapers pick up their story. Are the girls truly escaped slaves from Kentucky? Or will the city's dystopian Mendicity Society catch them in a lie, exposing them as born-and-raised Londoners and endangering their safety? With its many accounts of people like these who lived and made their living on the streets, Vagabonds forms a moving picture of London's most compelling period.

In Victorian London, Margaret Brink, in search of a better life, arrives by train from the countryside. While at the outset she gains employment, after some misfortune, she soon falls by the wayside. Told in the form of a letter, an inquiry from a relative of Margaret's is answered by a minister who did what he could for her. The Troubles of Margaret Brink is a short, but evocative tale from Award Winning author, Robert E. Kearns

Cordelia’s life is turned upside down when her stepfather reveals his nefarious plans. Her only hope: a poorly written letter from a man seeking a bride. On her way to be with him, she meets Blaze…handsome, charming, kind…and a huge complication. This novella is a short read, 60 to 70 minutes, assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. A sweet romance in the western USA set in Victorian times, the wild west of the 1870s. Dear Cordelia is #1 in the Romance in the Old West series.

“I will come back, Juliette... for you, for us! I promise that nothing, not even distance or time, will stop me from being by your side. (Simon)” “Simon, you are the love of my life. The love of all my lives that have passed and that will still come, if that is possible. (Juliette)” Lady Juliette and Lord Simon met by fate on Christmas Day 1822, during the Cramptons' dinner. Juliette, a beautiful and shy fifteen-year-old girl, and Simon, a handsome seventeen-year-old boy who dreamed of serving in the king's army in some British colony, just like his uncle, Captain Robert, Aunt ...

Si quiere descubrir la fascinante historia de la era victoriana, siga leyendo.... Cuando la reina Victoria subió al trono de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda en 1837, ya no existían los días en que el monarca tenía la autoridad suprema sobre el reino. Victoria gobernó al frente de un gobierno con el que debía conversar, debatir y, en última instancia, guiar, y era un trabajo que a veces le costaba realizar. Victoria se describiría a sí misma como una criatura emocional y culparía a su género por lo que creía que eran sus defectos como monarca.