Ali Ahmad

EE-1652

English Assignment (Victorian Age)

Queen Victoria ruled Britain from 1837 to 1901. This period is called the Victorian
era. It was a time in history when there was lots of change. Queen Victoria was born
in London on May 24, 1819.At the age of 18, she became Queen of the United
Kingdom. Victoria married Prince Albert in 1840, and together they had nine children.
When Albert died in 1861, Victoria withdrew from public life for several years but
continued to rule as Queen until she died at age 81 in 1901.Queen Victoria was the
first monarch to be photographed.

The Victorian era witnessed the creation of several scholarly works. The Communist
Manifesto where Karl Marx and Frederick Engels analyses the emergence of
several state systems and forecasts the rise of communism was written at this
time. Charles Darwin ‘s on the origin of species, written in this time was to radically
alter the scientific thinking of the world.

Tennyson was a prolific writer whose love for nature and romance found expression
in beautiful poems many of which were based on myths and legends of a long past
classical era. Shelly and Wordsworth are Victorian poets whose works paint a
brilliant picture of nature.

The other famous writers of the Victorian era include George Elliot or Mary Ann
Evans who adopted a male pseudonym to distance herself from the light-hearted
romances with which women writers of the time were associated. Her novels like
Middlemarch and Silas Merner are based in realism and provide deep psychological
insights. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair provide a satiric commentary on the age.

Considered by many to be the greatest mystery writer of all time, Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle has an incredibly impressive bibliography that includes novels, short stories,
poems, plays, and books on spiritualism. He was born in Edinburgh Scotland where he
became a medical student at age 18. His first novel “The Mystery of Cloomber” was
published in 1888 after being serialized but it wasn’t until 1891 when he created
Sherlock Holmes that he received widespread fame.

Many great Victorian authors have helped to define the period

for us with their excellent literature. It is interesting to note
that many of these books, including The Jungle Book by
Rudyard Kipling, remain popular today. Their pieces are still
read and continue to inspire new generations of authors
around the world