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The Mill On The Floss

The Victorian era of the United Kingdom was the period of Queen Victoria's rule from June 1837 to January 1901.[1] This was a long period of prosperity for the British people and calamity for many of its dominion subjects, as profits gained from the overseas British Empire, as well as from industrial improvements at home, allowed a large, educated middle class to develop. Some scholars would extend the beginning of the period—as defined by a variety of sensibilities and political concerns that have come to be associated with the Victorians—back five years to the passage of the Reform Act 1832.

The era was preceded by the Georgian period and succeeded by the Edwardian period. The latter half of the Victorian era roughly coincided with the first portion of the Belle Époque era of continental Europe.
Nineteenth century Britain saw a massive population increase, leading to increase in Poverty.

Victorian literature is the literature written in the UK during Queen Victoria's reign. This period, inspite of the economic and social difficulties that it faced has produced some of the best known writers and most treasured novels of all time. A great deal of poetry was also written during the Victorian Era, by Tennyson and Browning and other poets which have also become a legendary asset to literature.
Some important Victorian novelists are Emily, charloette and Anne Bronte, George Eliot, Charles dickens, Jane Austen and poets like Alfred lord Tennyson, Robert Browning and Christina Rossetti.

During the Victorian era, the woman’s place was considered at home. As the mother, as the wife, as the sister. A woman was essentially a home maker and was not ever considered for education, management or business. As a result, the intelligence of most women was supressed.There was rigid societal versions of the ideal Victorian women and most women during their upbringing were pushed forcefully into this mould. Those who did not fit were considered 'unworthy' and held at...