Colegiul National Ion Maiorescu GiurgiuThe Victorians

Coordinating teacher: Student:

Cpna Dana Clci Burtan Alina Nicoleta

Clasa a XII-a G

2010 - 2011

Contents1. The Victorian Era2. Culture

3. Entertainment

3.1 Penny gaffs and music halls

3.2 Magic, freak shows and waxworks

3.3 Circuses

3.4 Street artists

3.5 Pleasure gardens

4. The middle class

4.1 Domestic servants

4.2 Retail therapy

5. Education

5.1 The Ragged Schools

5.2 Apprentices 5.3 Parish schools

5.4 Church chools

5.5 The Jews Free School

5.6 The public schools

5.7 Education for girls

5.8 State intervention

5.9 The Universities

Bibliography

Altick, Richard Daniel.Victorian People and Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian Literature. W.W. Norton & Company: 1974.

Burton, Antoinette (editor).Politics and Empire in Victorian Britain: A Reader. Palgrave Macmillan: 2001.

Gay, Peter,The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, 5 volumes, Oxford University Press, 19841989

Heilmann, Ann, and Mark Llewellyn, eds.Neo-Victorianism: The Victorians in the Twenty-First Century, 1999-2009(Palgrave Macmillan; 2011) 323 pages; looks at recent literary & cinematic, interest in the Victorian era, including magic, sexuality, theme parks, and the postcolonial

Janowski, Diane,Victorian Pride - Forgotten Songs of America, 6 volumes, New York History Review Press, 2007-2008.

Flanders, Judith.Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England. W.W. Norton & Company: 2004.

Mitchell, Sally.Daily Life in Victorian England. Greenwood Press: 1996. Wilson, A. N.The Victorians. Arrow Books: 2002.

A Victorian Childhood,Annabel Jackson, 1932 (memoir)