Great Expectations
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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens | Search, Read, Study, Discuss
http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/greatexpectations/
Notes and Discussions
Great Expectations: An Overview
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/ge/geov.html
Discovering Dickens - A Community Reading Project
http://dickens.stanford.edu/archive/great/expectations.html
Great Expectations Book Notes Summary by Charles Dickens
http://www.bookrags.com/notes/gex/
The Atlantic | September 1861 | Review of Great Expectations
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/classrev/greatexp.htm
General Victorian England Sites
The Victorian Web: An Overview
http://www.victorianweb.org/
BBC - History - Victorians
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/
Victorian England
http://home.pacbell.net/gpeterma/victorian.html
The Victorian Dictionary - Exploring Victorian London
http://www.victorianlondon.org/
Victorian England
http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/VictorianEngland.htm
Victorian Britain 1837-1901 - A Simple Chronology
http://www.dur.ac.uk/alan.heesom/chronology.htm
Architecture and Decor
Victorian Architecture: An Overview
http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/index.html
High Victorian Gothic in England
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/hvgothic.html
Gothic Revival Architecture in England
http://www.britainexpress.com/architecture/gothic-revival.htm
Victorian Houses
http://www.aboutbritain.com/articles/victorian-houses.asp
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens: An Overview
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/dickensov.html
David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page
http://charlesdickenspage.com/index.html
Charles Dickens
http://www.helsinki.fi/kasv/nokol/dickens.html
Charles Dickens - Biography and Works
http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/
The Dickens Page: Charles Dickens (1812-70)
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Dickens.html
Dickens | PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/dickens/
Charles Dickens
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dickens.htm
A Dickens Chronology
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/CD-Chro.html
Children
Victorian Children
http://www.aboutbritain.com/articles/victorian-children.asp
Daily Life in Victorian England
Nineteenth Century Family Life
http://www.umd.umich.edu/casl/hum/eng/classes/434/charweb/breen1.htm
Education
BBC - History - Victorian Classroom Life
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/victorian_britain/education_health/classroom_life_01.shtml
Victorian Schools
http://www.aboutbritain.com/articles/victorian-schools.asp
Ragged Schools - Charles Dickens
http://www.maybole.org/history/articles/raggedschoolscharlesdickens.htm
Charles Dickens on Ragged Schooling
http://www.infed.org/archives/e-texts/dickens_ragged_schools.htm
Fashion
Victorian Era 1837-1901 Victorian Fashion History, Costume Social History
http://www.fashion-era.com/the_victorian_era.htm
What Victorians Wore: An Overview of Victorian Costume
http://www.victorianweb.org/art/costume/costumeov.html
Clothing of the Victorian Era
http://trulyvictorian.netfirms.com/history.html
Victorian Trivia
http://www.victoriasjewelrybox.com/victorian-trivia.html
Victorian Clothes
http://www.aboutbritain.com/articles/victorian-clothes.asp
Labor
Work: Victorian Era
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~city19c/viccity/work.html
BBC - History - Working Life and the First Modern Census
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/victorian_britain/earning_a_living/working_life_census_01.shtml
The Story of Workhouses
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/index.html
The Life of the Industrial Worker in 19th-Century Britain
http://www.geocities.com/couple_colour/Worker/
BBC - History - Women's Work
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/womens_work_01.shtml
Child Labour
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.htm
Child Labor and the British Industrial Revolution
http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=3879
Child Labor During the British Industrial Revolution
http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/tuttle.labor.child.britain
General Appearance of Mill Workers
http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/primarysources/lowell/docs/dickens.html
Leisure and Entertainment
Victorian Leisure
http://tofino.ex.ac.uk/virvic/themes/leisure/home.htm
BBC - History - Victorian Sport: Playing by the Rules
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/sport_01.shtml
Victorian Fun and Games - Other Victorian Pastimes
http://www.logicmgmt.com/1876/funandgames/pastimes.htm
Victorian Games and Toys
http://www.aboutbritain.com/articles/victorian-games-and-toys.asp
BBC - History - The Victorian Seaside
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/seaside_01.shtml
Literature
Authors Discussed in the Victorian Web
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/index.html
English literature: The Victorian Age
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0858005.html
The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Victorian Age
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/victorian/welcome.htm
Dickens and the Victorian Serial Novel
http://www.umd.umich.edu/casl/hum/eng/classes/434/geweb/THEHISTO.htm
Victorian Detective Fiction
http://www.crimeculture.com/Contents/VictorianCrime.html
The Sensation Novel | Introduction
http://www.enotes.com/nineteenth-century-criticism/sensation-novel
The Sensation Novel: “The Secret Theatre of Home”
http://www.guypetersreviews.com/sensation.php
All about Sherlock Holmes
http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/cops_others/sherlock_holmes/1.html
Contemporary Biography of Wilkie Collins
http://www.wilkiecollins.com/
Medicine and Health
Nineteenth-Century British Medicine and Public Health Overview
http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/healthov.html
Politics and Politicians
Politics
Political History: An Overview
Victorian Political History: An Overview
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/index.html
History of Great Britain: Victorian Era 1837-1854
http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=1159&HistoryID=ab07
History of Great Britain: Victorian Era 1854-1901
http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=449&HistoryID=ab07
Political Personalities: 1815-1880
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/peelpol.htm
BBC - History - Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/victoria_ministers_01.shtml
Sir Robert Peel
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page151.asp
Lord John Russell (1792-1878)
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/pms/russell.htm
Earl Russell
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page148.asp
Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799 -- 1869)
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/pms/derby.htm
Earl of Derby
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page147.asp
George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784-1860)
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/pms/aberdeen.htm
Earl of Aberdeen
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page150.asp
Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865)
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/pms/palmerst.htm
Viscount Palmerston
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page149.asp
Benjamin Disraeli (1804 -- 1881)
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/pms/dizzy.htm
Benjamin Disraeli
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page146.asp
Benjamin Disraeli
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRdisraeli.ht...
BBC - History - Disraeli and Gladstone: Opposing Forces
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/di...
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/pms/gladston.htm
William Ewart Gladstone
http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page145.asp
William Ewart Gladstone
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page145.asp
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 9th Earl of Salisbury (1830-1903)
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/pms/salisbur.htm
Marquess of Salisbury
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page144.asp
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/pms/rosebery.htm
Earl of Rosebery
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page143.asp
Science and Technology
Victorian Science: An Overview
http://www.victorianweb.org/science/index.html
Victorian Technology
http://www.victorianweb.org/technology/index.html
BBC - History - Victorian Technology
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/victorian_technology_01.shtml
BBC - History - Britain as Workshop of the World
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/victorian_britain/industry_invention/britain_workshopworld_01.shtml
The Industrial Revolution and the Railway System
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/ind_rev/index.html
Victorian Railways
http://www.aboutbritain.com/articles/victorian-railways.asp
Social Conditions
Victorian Social History: An Overview
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/sochistov.html
BBC - History - London's 'Great Stink' and Victorian Urban Planning
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/victorian_britain/social_conditions/victorian_urban
planning_01.shtm
BBC - History - The Rise of the Victorian Middle Class
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/middle_classes_01.shtml
Women
BBC - History - Ideals of Womanhood in Victorian Britain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/victorian_britain/women_home/ideals_womanhood_01.shtml
BBC - History - Women and Urban Life in Victorian Britain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/victorian_britain/women_out/urban_life_01.shtml
Women of Victorian England
http://crayzray.tripod.com/clpage/writtings/other/victorian_women.htm
Property Rights of Women
http://www.umd.umich.edu/casl/hum/eng/classes/434/geweb/PROPERTY.htm
Women's Life
http://www.victoriaspast.com/LifeofVictorianWoman/LifeofVictorianWoman.html
Courting the Victorian Woman
http://www.literary-liaisons.com/article009.html