... Edward, who would become Prince of Wales, followed her. Victoria would become England's longest reigning monarch, being in power for sixty-four years. She reigned longer even than her grandfather, George III, during which Britain became the most powerful nation on Earth. Through the descendants of her 42 grandchildren, many of the people of the current thrones of Europe descend from ... about the ambitions for social advancement. The English novel was characterized as long, realistic, and thickly plotted. George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) felt the need write about the ethical conflicts and ...

• Word Count: 1447
• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: High School

... characters such as Elizabeth Bennett lived happily ever after, Victorian novelist George Eliot, broke the tradition of the standard romantic novel by representing women in unhappy relationships and the reality and problems of the woman's role in life and their place in society, this is particularly evident in her realist novel Middlemarch. Another example of the way women were represented in the mid ... ...

• Word Count: 1599
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate