What Decade Of The Victorian Era Do You Belong In?

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The 1850s

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The 1850s was a decisive period in Britain's conception of itself as an (imperial) nation. The harshly criticized Crimean war took place between 1853 and 1856, and the Indian Rebellion of 1857 forced the East India Company to relinquish its control of that colony to the state. The Great Exhibition of 1851 displayed the wonders of industrialized production and objects culled from across the empire. George Eliot published her first work, Scenes from Clerical Life, and her first novel, Adam Bede, and Charles Dickens published some of his best-known works, including David Copperfield, Bleak House, and A Tale of Two Cities.

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1830-tallet!

Though the Victorian era only officially began in 1837, when an eighteen-year-old Victoria became Queen upon the death of her uncle, the 1830s as a whole was a period of remarkable transition. Railways revolutionized transport as they began to stretch across the country. The controversial First Reform Act dramatically redistributed voter constituencies in 1832. As the Romantic period began to come to an end, Charles Dickens published his first novel, The Pickwick Papers, in 1836 .

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The 1870s

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In the 1870s, Queen Victoria re-entered public life, and was given the new title of "Empress of India" by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. The decade marked the beginning of a period of rapid colonial expansion, and imperialism began to be framed as a civilizing mission rather than a money making venture. In the artistic realm, James Abbott McNeill Whistler and John Ruskin (or Ruskin's lawyers) debated the aims of art in civil court, and in 1870, Charles Dickens died, while George Eliot published her last novels during this decade.