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Early 19th century England

Political Social

y Ireland and Great Brittan Merge toform the United Kingdom (1801)

y The British Empire grows in both sizeand global influence

y The first modern police force forms(1829)

y Revolution in The United Kingdomleads to the formation of Belgium

y After years of intense protest andactivism the 3 reform acts drastically

change the works of the BritishParliament (1832, 1833, 1834)

o Allowed non land owners tovote

y Frankenstein is written (1818)y Regency Era of 1811-1820, Aristocrats

flourished with the achievements in arts

y lavery is abolished in The UnitedKingdom (1833) they are the second in

the world to do so.

y Queen Victoria's reign begins. It isconsidered the apex of the British

Empire. (1837-1901)

y ocial Class in England is largely basedon that of your parents.

y The hereditary upper class ruled thecountry through the House of Lords.

y The House of Commons was lessinfluential and represented everyoneelse.

y Houses are not yet purchased throughmortgage loans and as such only the

upper class owns land and can voteearly in the century.

y With the invention of trains trade growsrapidly.

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Information on Emily Bronte:

Emily Bronte was born in 1818 to Patrick and Maria Bronte. She had five other siblings:

Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Emily, and Ann. Patrick, the son of an Irish peasant farmer, was

educated at Cambridge, and became an ordained minister. He was her Calvinistic influence. He

also wrote and published many books, making it common to his children, who all wrote books

too. Emilys mother was from a well-off family. She died from tuberculosis one year after the

family moved from Hayworth. Her sister came to help care for the children. Emily was sent to a

private school to be educated, but could not stand the restricted routine, so she returned home.

Maria and Elizabeth both died of tuberculosis. Emily loved animals and was a very solitaire and

isolated person. She loved the mores of Hayworth, and wrote many of her stories based on them.

The three girls published their stories under pen names. Emilys Wuthering Heights was

published in 1847, under the pen name Ellis. Emily died on December 19, 1848 because of her

stubbornness in refusing to accept any treatment for her illness.

Characteristics of the genre:

Victorian literature was produced by many of the greats of novelists, such as Charles Dickens

and Thomas Hardy.

They were primarily concerned with people in society, and their relationships with each other,

their social classes and their occupations. They were more concerned with peoples relationships

with each other, rather than their relation to God.

The authors typically wrote about contemporary aspects of life; a representation of nineteenth

century everyday life. The characters in the stories were people acting as opposed to peoplerecollecting or reflecting.

They wrote about a sense of responsibility.