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Voices of Victorian England: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life (Voices of an Era) by John A. Wagner, III, John A. Wagner is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Voices of Victorian England: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life (Voices of an Era) about?
The Victorian age was a period of transition as Britain industrialized and society underwent profound changes. Here, contemporary voices provide students with an up-close look at this pivotal time.Voices of Victorian England illuminates the character, personalities, and events of the era through excerpts from primary documents produced between 1837 and 1901. By allowing Queen Victoria's contemporaries to speak for themselves, this work brings the achievements and conflicts that occurred during the queen's long reign alive for high school and college students as well as the general public.Excerpts represent literary giants such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, and Anthony Trollope. The book covers the worlds of politics, religion, economics, and science, and addresses subjects such as women's issues and the royal family. Documents include letters, poems, speeches, polemics, reviews, novels, official reports, and self-help guides, as well as descriptive narratives of people and events from England, Scotland, Ireland, and, where pertinent, America and continental Europe. Spelling has been modernized and unfamiliar terms defined, and questions and commentary provide b
Who reads Voices of Victorian England: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life (Voices of an Era)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- John A. Wagner, III, John A. Wagner
- Publisher
- Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9798216162704
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Political Science, Humanities
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