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The Victorian Age

By brando.juarez
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    Thomas Carlyle

    Famous Works: Sartor Resartus; The French Revolution; Heroes and Hero-Worship.
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    Alfred, Lord Tennyson

    Famous Works: The Palace of Art, Ulysses, The Two Voices.
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    Charles Dickens

    Famous Works: David Coperfield; Great Expectations; A Christmas Carol; Oliver Twist.
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    Robert Browning

    Famous Works: The Pied Piper; Sordello; Dramatis Personae
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    John Ruskin

    Famous Works: The Seven Lamps of Architecture; The Stones of Venice; Unto This Last; Sesame and Lilies.

  • Catholic Emancipation was achieved in Britain

  • The Reform Bill

    The Reform Bill was passed in order to democratize parliamentary representation.
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    Lewis Carroll

    Famous Works: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass.

  • Abolition of slavery

    The British Isles passed a bill to abolish slavery.
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    Gerard Manley Hopkins

    Famous Works: The Wreck of the Deustschland, Duns Scotus's Oxford.

  • The Origin of Species

    Charles Darwin published "The Origin of Species", which would go on to become the foundation of evolutionary biology.