Victorian Period Summary | Literary Features, Historical events, Writers |Try.Fulfil

Victorian Period Summary, Victorian Period Literary Features, Victorian Period historical events, Victorian period writers, Try.Fulfil, Saiful Munna.

Victorian Period Summary, Victorian Period Literary Features, Victorian Period historical events, Victorian period writers, Try.Fulfil, Saiful Munna.
Victorian Period Summary | Literary Features, Historical events, Writers |Try.Fulfil


  • Name: Victorian Period
  • Duration: 1832-1901
  • Historical Events: The Industrial Revolution, Reformation Bill, The Origin of Species Published, Crimean War etc.

Victorian Period: Historical Events:

Industrial Revolution:

Industrial revolution sparked during Victorian era. Most of the people used to live in the villages doing farming and weaving. During the revolution, new machines took away people’s jobs and a significant number of people shifted to towns. In the mid-nineteenth century, the population living in towns grew more than fifty percent. Steam engines and use of steel changed the economy of England rapidly.

Reformation Bill: 

The reformation bill was brought to enhance the voting rights of male property owners and working-class people in 1832 and 1867 consecutively.

Origin of Species: 

In 1859, Charles Darwin Published his book ‘On the Origin of Species’ from observation of finches in Galapagos Islands covering 1831 to 1836. It has an enormous impact in Victorian society introducing a wall between religion and science.

Crimean War 1854-56: Russian influence over the regions of ottoman empire /Uthmani caliphate (middle east/holy land and Mediterranean east) caused the Crimean war. Russia was challenged by France to establish power in the churches under Ottoman Empire.  Ultimately Britain and Sardinia (Present Italy) joined France and Ottoman Empire /Uthmani Caliphate declared war Against Russia. Russia lost the war, but 21000 British troops died. Florence Nightingale became prominent during this war by caring British wounded soldiers with her 38 nurses.

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Literary Features of Victorian Period:

The Victorian period built bridge between the romantic notions from eighteenth century and realistic thoughts of twentieth century. Novel became the dominant literary genre at the time having broadened readers. Novels of the period represented middle class of the society and contemporary life of common men. They intended to preach the message of moral fall and provided optimism and hope.

Every literary period has some features; the Victorian period is not different from them. The features of Victorian period are given below –

  • Victorian realism.
  • Thirst for Knowledge.
  • To know the unknown.
  • To see the unseen.
  • Love for adventure.
  • Development of science.
  • Ignorance of morality.
  • Victorian compromise.
  • Hypocrisy etc.


Victorian Period: Summary:

The Victorian period is one of the most remarkable periods in English literature. The duration of this period is from 1832 to 1901. This period is named after Queen Victoria who reigned over England from 1837. The Victorian period began in 1832 because the literary features of the new age became obvious during 1832. The Victorian Period has a great contribution in the history of English literature. The Victorian Age is called the age of Tennyson. This period is rightly divided into 2 sub-periods.

1) The Pre- Raphaelites period:

 The twelve years from 1848 to 1860 is called the age of the Pre-Raphaelites because in this period, the artistic follow the art forms used before the period of Raphael.

 2) The Aesthetic Period: 

The last two decades from 1880 to 1901 of this periods are called the age of Aestheticism. These decades also called ‘the Decadence’ because there was a decay of the Victorian spirit and standard in these years.


Prominent writers of Victorian period:

Matthew Arnold (1822-1888):

Matthew Arnold is an extraordinary poet of Victorian period. Matthew Arnold was an elected professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1857. Matthew Arnold wrote some famous poems like Dover Beach, Thyrsis, The Scholar Gipsy etc.

Alfred Tennyson (1832-1901):

Alfred Tennyson is another extraordinary poet of the Victorian Period. Tennyson is regarded as the representative poet of the Victorian period. Alfred Tennyson is the beginner of dramatic monologue. In his lifetime he wrote many world-famous poems like Ulysses, Tithonus, Crossing the Bar, The Lotos Eaters etc.

Robert Browning (1812-1883):

Robert Browning is a famous poet of Victorian period. He is called the master of dramatic monologue. He is a poet of spirituality. His world-famous poems are My Last Duchess, Andrea Del Sarto, Fra Lippo Lippi etc.

George Eliot (1819-1880):

George Eliot’s full name is Mary Ann Evans. She was an English poet, novelist of the Victorian period. George Eliot's seven most famous novels are: The Mill on the Floss, Scenes of Clerical Life, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, Romola, Middlemarch.


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