... during the Victorian Era. Writers during this time wrote about the impact of industrialism, political changes, social change, and imperialism. Authors such as Charles Dickens, author of Great Expectations, Charlotte Bronte, author of Jane Eyre, wrote 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 ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... the rich, upper classes. Educational and employment opportunities for women were limited. These inequalities stimulated a spirited debate about women's roles known as the "Woman Question." Writers as diverse as Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Florence Nightingale complained that middle class women were taught trivial accomplishments to fill up days in which there was nothing important to do. In these classes ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate