In exploring the works of prominent Victorian authors such as Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and the Brontë sisters, it equally explores the thematic underpinnings of their novels, such as social …

Didacticism characterized Victorian expression as well as Victorian insti-tutions. Through the printed media, Victorian writers sought to shape the quality of life for themselves and others.

This exhibit features examples of Victorian era fashion from the Long Island Studies Institute’s (LISI) Hart-Nichols Collection. Included are images of dresses, shoes, hook and eyes, spectacles, …

Robert Buchanan, "The Fleshly School of Poetry," Rev. of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poems. This anthology serves as an introduction to Victorian era poetry and poetic theory. You will find …

Victorian architecture, named during the reign of England’s Queen Victoria (1837-1901), became popular in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. Many people in this era regarded their …

A sweeping statement about the Victorian Age as a whole might be that it was marked by change-induced crisis in politics, economics, religion, and social affairs as well as by faith in “progress” as …

Significant Victorian novelists and poets include: Matthew Arnold, the Brontë sisters (Emily, Anne and Charlotte Brontë), Christina Rossetti, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Joseph Conrad, …