Victorian era

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era of British history historical period

The Victorian era was the period of British history during Queen Victoria's reign (1837–1901), marked by rapid industrialization, imperial expansion, and significant social and cultural change.

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Observed surface forms (8)

Surface form	Occurrences
Victorian Britain	2
Victorian England	2
Late Victorian	1
Pax Britannica	1
Victorian	1
Victorian era Britain	1
Victorian period	1
Victorian-era America	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	era of British history ⓘ historical period ⓘ
associatedWith	British Empire at its height ⓘ Gothic Revival ⓘ surface form: Gothic Revival architecture Victorian architecture ⓘ Victorian art ⓘ Victorian fashion ⓘ Victorian literature ⓘ Victorian morality ⓘ Victorian science ⓘ
capital	London, England ⓘ surface form: London
country	United Kingdom ⓘ
dominantReligion	Anglican Communion ⓘ surface form: Anglicanism Protestant Christianity ⓘ surface form: Protestantism
economicSystem	capitalism ⓘ emergent welfare reforms (late) ⓘ laissez-faire economics (early and mid) ⓘ
endTime	1901 ⓘ
fieldOfWork	architecture ⓘ engineering ⓘ imperial administration ⓘ industrial development ⓘ literature ⓘ public health ⓘ railway construction ⓘ science and technology ⓘ social reform ⓘ
followedBy	Edwardian era ⓘ
follows	Georgian era ⓘ William IV era ⓘ
governmentForm	constitutional monarchy ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	Victorian morality ⓘ child labor ⓘ cult of domesticity ⓘ debates over evolution ⓘ development of modern policing ⓘ expansion of public education ⓘ expansion of railways ⓘ factory system ⓘ growth of consumer culture ⓘ growth of the middle class ⓘ imperial expansion ⓘ philanthropy ⓘ poor urban living conditions ⓘ prudish sexual norms ⓘ rapid industrialization ⓘ religious revivalism ⓘ rise of mass literacy ⓘ scientific advancement ⓘ separate spheres ideology ⓘ social reform movements ⓘ strict social hierarchy ⓘ technological innovation ⓘ temperance movement ⓘ urbanization ⓘ women’s suffrage activism (early phase) ⓘ
hasCulturalMovement	Aestheticism ⓘ surface form: Aesthetic movement Gothic Revival ⓘ Muscular Christianity ⓘ Pre-Raphaelite art ⓘ surface form: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Social realism ⓘ surface form: Social realism in literature Spiritualism ⓘ
hasPart	early Victorian period ⓘ late Victorian period ⓘ mid-Victorian period ⓘ
headOfState	Queen Victoria ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
legislativeBody	British Parliament ⓘ surface form: Parliament of the United Kingdom
monarch	Queen Victoria ⓘ
namedAfter	Queen Victoria ⓘ
notableFigure	Alexander Graham Bell ⓘ Alfred, Lord Tennyson ⓘ Benjamin Disraeli ⓘ Charles Darwin ⓘ Charles Dickens ⓘ Elizabeth Barrett Browning ⓘ Florence Nightingale (as nurse and organizer of medical care) ⓘ surface form: Florence Nightingale George Eliot ⓘ Herbert George Wells ⓘ surface form: H. G. Wells Herbert Spencer ⓘ Isambard Kingdom Brunel ⓘ James Clerk Maxwell ⓘ John Ruskin ⓘ John Stuart Mill ⓘ Joseph Lister ⓘ Lewis Carroll ⓘ Michael Faraday ⓘ Oscar Wilde ⓘ Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ⓘ surface form: Prince Albert Robert Browning ⓘ Rudyard Kipling ⓘ Thomas Hardy ⓘ Thomas Henry Huxley ⓘ surface form: Thomas Huxley William Ewart Gladstone ⓘ William Morris ⓘ
partOf	19th century ⓘ
significantEvent	Crimean War ⓘ Great Exhibition of 1851 ⓘ Indian Rebellion of 1857 ⓘ Second Industrial Revolution ⓘ surface form: Industrial Revolution (later phase) Great Famine ⓘ surface form: Irish Famine (Great Famine) Public Health Acts in Britain ⓘ Reform Act 1832 ⓘ surface form: Reform Acts in Britain Scramble for Africa ⓘ Second Boer War ⓘ Opium Wars ⓘ surface form: Second Opium War expansion of the British Empire ⓘ
startTime	1837 ⓘ

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Treaty of Pretoria (1881) → historicalPeriod → Victorian era ⓘ

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Alfred → historicalUsage → Victorian era ⓘ

Public Health Acts in Britain → inceptionPeriod → Victorian era ⓘ

Alice James → literaryPeriod → Victorian era ⓘ

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Caroline Clive → literaryPeriod → Victorian era ⓘ

Felix Holt, the Radical → literaryPeriod → Victorian era ⓘ

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Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands → literaryPeriod → Victorian era ⓘ

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Work: A Story of Experience → literaryPeriod → Victorian era ⓘ

"Emma Darwin: A Century of Family Letters" → literarySetting → Victorian era ⓘ

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The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud → mainSubject → Victorian era ⓘ

James Anthony Froude → movement → Victorian era ⓘ

Channel Fleet → notableEra → Victorian era ⓘ

Queen Victoria → notableEra → Victorian era ⓘ

Grand Opera House → notablePeriod → Victorian era ⓘ

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Pre-Raphaelite art → period → Victorian era ⓘ

The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud → periodCoveredStart → Victorian era ⓘ

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Effie Gray → setInPeriod → Victorian era ⓘ

George Vavasor → setInPeriod → Victorian era ⓘ

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Lord Fawn → setting → Victorian era ⓘ

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The Man Versus the State → setting → Victorian era ⓘ

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Bleak House → settingPeriod → Victorian era ⓘ

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Daniel Deronda → settingPeriod → Victorian era ⓘ

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