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    Critical scholars have pointed to the status of women in the Victorian era as an illustration of the striking discrepancy of the United Kingdom's national power...
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    In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the reign of Queen Victoria, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22...
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  • the Victorian era refers to society and culture in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era --that is the 1837-1901 reign of Queen Victoria. The idea...
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    Victorian-era cosmetics were cosmetic products used during the Victorian age. Victorian cosmetics sometimes used toxic ingredients such as lead, mercury...
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    revolution. During the Victorian Era, women generally worked in the private, domestic sphere. Unlike in earlier centuries when women would often help their...
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    Victorian erotica is a genre of sexual art and literature which emerged in the Victorian era of 19th-century Britain. Victorian erotica emerged as a product...
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    Theatre in the Victorian era is regarded as history of theatre in the United Kingdom during the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. It was a time...
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  • Demographics of the Victorian era refers to the demographics of the United Kingdom during the reign of Queen Victoria. Britain had the lead in rapid economic...
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  • about the United Kingdom and British Empire during the reign of Queen Victoria. Adams, James Eli et al. eds. Encyclopedia of the Victorian era (4 vol...
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    bangs in the 1600s as a sign of a vanity and "a slide into mortal sin". Bangs, often curled, regained popularity among women in the Victorian era. The "Alexandra...
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    Victorian morality is a distillation of the moral views of the middle class in 19th-century Britain, the Victorian era. Victorian values emerged in all...
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    Nightcaps were worn by many women in the Victorian era, but were seen as old-fashioned by the Edwardian era. Some women still wore nightcaps, similar...
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  • Marianne Skerrett (category Women of the Victorian era)
    in London to Walter Frye Skerrett and Albinia Mathias Skerrett. She was employed by the queen after her accession to the throne in 1837. She was the Principal...
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  • trade of the Victorian era refers to the economic history of the United Kingdom during the reign of Queen Victoria. "The most obvious and the most distinctive...
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  • published scholarship about the place of women in the Victorian era as well as women's suffrage societies. She served as President of the Board of Trustees of...
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  • Victorian jewellery originated in England; it was produced during the Victoria era, when Queen Victoria reigned from 1837 to 1901. Queen Victoria was an...
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    infamous in Victorian society. Ada did not have a relationship with her father. He died in 1824 when she was eight years old. Her mother was the only significant...
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    influence in the 1840s and 1850s, and the Gothic Revival style became prevalent by the 1880s. Later in the Victorian era, the Queen Anne style and the Arts...
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    Elizabeth Medora Leigh (category Women of the Victorian era)
    it is – that must be my fault." The child's middle name was taken from the heroine of Byron's poem The Corsair. In the family, she was known as Elizabeth...
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    Fallen woman (redirect from Fallen women)
    conventional Victorian 'rescue work' for 'fallen' women" was carried out in the Philippines during the Philippine–American War on behalf of the United States...
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  • Clara Antoinette McCarty Wilt (category Women of the Victorian era)
    1855, in the Sumner area. Clara was the second of five children: Charles C., Laura Candace, Mary Estelle, William W., and Frank Truman. In the years following...
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    Marie Carandini (category Women of the Victorian era)
    was an English-Australian opera singer. Maria Burgess was born in Brixton, Surrey, the daughter of coachman James Burgess (died 1835) and Martha Burgess...
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    Emma Elizabeth Smith (category Women of the Victorian era)
    mysterious origins in late-19th century London. Her killing was the first of the Whitechapel murders, and it is possible she was a victim of the serial killer...
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    Anne Caulfeild, Countess of Charlemont (category Women of the Victorian era)
    footnote 12) Notes and Queries, 4th Series, Volume 5, Feb 5, 1870, pg 160 Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages by Phyllis Rose available from Amazon...
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    Kingdom Women in the House of Lords Women in the Victorian era Women in World War I (Great Britain) Home front during World War I (Britain) Women's suffrage...
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    Adelaide Kemble (category Women of the Victorian era)
    English opera singer of the Victorian era, and a member of the Kemble family of actors. She was the younger sister of Fanny Kemble, the famous actress and...
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    Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (category Women of the Victorian era)
    Kingdom and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The longest-lived daughter-in-law of George III, she was the maternal grandmother of Mary of Teck, wife of...
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  • she became interested in the Victorian era. While learning about the activism in socialism, women's suffrage, and utopianism of the period, she was inspired...
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  • Victoria Davies Randle (category Women of the Victorian era)
    Randle (née Davies; 1863 – 1920) was a socialite in Victorian Lagos Colony. Victoria Davies was the eldest child of James Pinson Labulo Davies, a wealthy...
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    Mary Louisa Bruce, Countess of Elgin (category Women of the Victorian era)
    was a British aristocrat and writer. She was Vicereine of India in 1862-1863. She was the daughter of John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham and his second wife...
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