How Literature Was Affected In The Victorian Age
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The Year 1837 was very significant. It was not only the year that
Queen Victoria acceded the throne, but also the year that a new literary
age was coined. The Victorian Age, more formally known, was a time of
great prosperity in Great Britain's literature(Keach 608). The Victorian
Age produced ....
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.... social controversies(Brown 16).
Queen Victoria influenced the literary age herself. She loved to
read and she was educated in the finest schools in Great Britain(Fraiser
278). Queen Victoria encouraged reading among all of her people. She gave
out free books to children and she built schools for the lower classes.
Also the Queen invited prominent Victorian age writers such as Alfred,
Lord Tennyson and Charles Dickens to read privately to her in Buckingham
Palace(Packard 59).
The Victo ....
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