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DeLaura, David J., and George P. Landow. "Victorian Era." //[|http://www.victorianweb.org]//. Oct. 3. Web. 03 Feb. 2011. The Victorian website gives a very concise description of the government, such as economic matters, gender matters like the women suffrage movement, reforms, society changes. New religions, such as agnosticism, utilitarianism, are introduced and the Evangelical Movement begins. Cultures, including the fashion, like the revolution of corsets, leisure activities, including swimming, cricket, and rugby, and amusements such as, Pantomimes. Along with fashion, this website includes paintings and sculptures by artists from Edward H. Corbould to Sophie Anderson. The website includes the type of fictional, non-fictional, poetic novels; and continues to go into depth of the genres, such as comedy, realism and common use of certain techniques. I used this project to create an overview of the time period, and background information. I used this website for details of how people in people of that time. I also used this website to learn about living conditions.

Dinscore, Amanda. "Victorian Literature and Culture � College & Research Libraries News." http://crln.acrl.org/content/71/4/197.full. College & Research Libraries News. Autumn 2010. Web. 03 Feb. 2011. This website gives broad, but easy to interpret, overview of the Victorian Era. The website notes the political and cultural innovation and changes. The websites shares that science, technology, and art, as well as literature. In the column, it says literature �inspired� and �fascinated� artists and scholars. This site includes sites that pertain to the Victorian Era. This site includes, as well as broad sites about the Victorian Era, this site includes websites for specific topics of the era. Topics on art, which may include information art pieces and sculptures, music, and entertainment, and statistical and regional, which has information on trade patterns and what was traded throughout countries, census information, and election results. Other sites given by this site pertained to crime and punishment, which ranged from murder to child custody and images of courts appearances. I used this site to gain additional information from other sites, as well as a brief synopsis of the era.

Drake, Al. "Introduction to the Victorian Period." //[]// ///materials/guides/gd_vic_intro.htm //. Portal Site of Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D. Fall 2004. Web. 03 Feb. 2011. This site gives more of a multiple views of the, but mostly political and religious event and deviations of the Victorian Age. The website is chronically organized and gives specific accounts and event that happened in this era and how they occurred. The site starts with stating the pre-Victorian Age and the relationship between France and how the French Revolution affected England. The Introduction also shows the economic turning point when the Industrial Revolution started and how it got to that point. The site contains information on reforms and changes in society. The part of the site I mostly researched is separated into three different four different points; post-Victorian Period, Early Victorian Period, Mid Victorian Period, and Late Victorian Period. I plan to use this site to research the economic and progressive changes and how the affected society such as farmers and people who lived in the city. Architecture, too, changed during this time period, by becoming more posh and fancy. I also plan on using this website to note important figures, people and fruitful cultures

Fletcher, Robert H. "General Conditions - Victorian Period - A History of English Literature." //Books & Literature Classics //. Jan. 2000. Web. 03 Feb. 2011. This website gives information on the literature of the Victorian Era, rather than the history the era and unlike most the sites I used.. Although, this site still gives a variety of information and facts that influenced the literature. The site shares events that made possible influences on literature. For instance, the //Origin of Species// by Charles Darwin came out of science expansion. Also, religious enlightenment period, when religions were gradually becoming accepted and which took place in this era, allowed viewpoints of religions to be expressed. Books like //Apology for My Life// by Charles Kingsley are like such books. I used this website as a site to compare events of the era and related how it affected the literature of that time. I used this website to find important, additional facts, and important authors.

Ilana, Miller. "The Victorian Era//." http://www.victoriaspast.com/FrontPorch/victorianera.htm//. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Oct. 2003. Web. 03 Feb. 2011. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">The following website gave me culture-wise, society-based information. The site, too, is women-centered. It gives the fashion of the time and how it evolved and how it evolved into the fashion it was. Not only does it explain change in female fashion, but men�s fashion as well, which ranged from trousers to fancy mustaches. It explains how women of that time spent their day and that ranged from horseback riding and spending time speaking to other women. It goes on to explain how the era was full of �prudishness� and �representatives�. Also during this period, took place the Pre-Raphaelites movement, an art movement that included a throng of artists. The site ends by saying the Victorian Era was the �precursor� to the modern era. I used this site to get a view of how fashion evolved and to describe common fashion trends, and the characteristic of the era itself.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Lombardi, Esther. "Victorian Period - A Time of Change." //Books & Literature Classics//. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Jan. 2000. Web. 03 Feb. 2011. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">�A Time of Change� focuses on how the era revolved around Queen Victoria and, like the other sites, explains the social, economic, technologic, scientific, and political changes. The site goes on to column goes on to state the Victorian Era was ��brought about because of the Industrial Revolution.� The site, first, separates the era into early and late. From there, they list the authors of those early and late periods. Approximately, and according to the website the Victorian Era ended in 1870. Authors of the early era were Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), Robert Browning (1812-1889), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), Emily Bronte (1818-1848), Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), George Eliot (1819-1880), Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) and Charles Dickens (1812-1870). Authors of the late era were George Meredith (1828-1909), Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), Oscar Wilde (1856-1900), Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), A.E. Housman (1859-1936), and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). This list is organized by time of birth. The site refers to two well-known authors of the era. Tennyson and Browning were popular for their poetry writings. Eliot and Dickens were contributors to the development of English novels. I used this site to know what authors to research and to be able to differentiate the difference between early works and late works of the Victorian Era.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">New World Encyclopedia Contributors. "Victorian Literature - New World Encyclopedia." //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">[] //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">. Main Page - New World Encyclopedia. New World Encyclopedia, Nov. 2008. Web. 03 Feb. 2011. < >. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">In the contents it lists; //Novelists, the style of the Victorian Novel, Other Literature//, which includes//; Children�s literature, poetry, the influence of the Empire, Science, philosophy and discovery,// and //Supernatural and fantastic literature.// Then listed as well is //the influence of the Victorian literature, References, External Links, and Credits//. //The Novelists// explains the most well know writer if this era was Charles Dickens and �exemplifies the Victorian writer better than any other writer. His competition is, stated on the sites, William Makepeace Thackeray. Writers know in rural area were the Bronte sisters, as well as Mary Anne Evans, best known as George Eliot, who changed her name only to be taken seriously. //The style of the Victorian Novel// shows how most Victorian novels were characterized as, which appeared to be //Scientific, philosophy and discovery// explains how ideas of socialism, utilitarianism, and Anglicanism transformed to literary pieces. //The Supernatural and fantastic literature,// elucidates how Frankenstein, Dracula, and Edward Hyde were used among popular novels and how �larger-than-life� characters like Sherlock Holmes became recognized. The site writes that the Victorian era influenced many countries such as Australia to grasp their own individual �voices� in literature. I used this site to research and understand influence of the Victorian era.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Patel, Rakesh. "Literature Of The Victorian Era." Http:ezinearticles.com//. Winter 2011. Web. 3// <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Feb. 2011. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">The Literature of the Victorian Era //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">gives the characteristics of the Victorian Era�s literature. The site starts by characterizing the era as a mirror of problems in that time, which in result, allowed correction and a �human instrument� for progress. Victorian novels, such as Tennyson, focused on moral purposes. Idealism is the third characteristic and explains that these type of novels forced people to question the religion, way of life, and evolution, which in some way caused confusion in this time period. Ideal life is the last characteristic stated in the site. It states although though the Victorian era was practical and materialistic, it still focus on important ideals like truth, love, justice, and brotherhood. Lastly the author of this piece writes suggested authors to get a full concept of how the Victorian literature was depicted. I used this site to get an idea of how Victorian literature was characterized and what famous authors to research. // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">Pearson. "English Literature: The Victorian Age � Infoplease.com." //Infoplease: Encyclopedia, Almanac, Atlas, Biographies, Dictionary, Thesaurus. Free Online Reference, Research & Homework Help. � Infoplease.com//. Columbia University Press, Winter 2001. Web. 03 Feb. 2011.// <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">This site gives a brief synopsis of how changes occurred during the Victorian Era. Then the site goes to explain the different types of literature; the novels (fiction), the nonfiction, and the poetry. In the novels paragraph it describes the novels of Dickens and how they are fill with vivid plots and characters, and meaningful lessons; and Thackeray’s //Vanity Fair// depicts the theme hypocrisy and greed. The paragraph goes on to list children literature such as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, although it is characterized as a children’s novel it was also popular among adults as well. In the non-fiction paragraph, it lists popular authors among the era that wrote about their ideals. The authors include Huxley, who wrote about Darwinism, Matthew Arnold, who wrote about culture and foundations for modern criticism. In the poetry paragraph, they state the familiar authors, such as Browning and Tennyson, who centered religious and social certitude. I used this site to research the classification of certain authors.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">University of Minnesota- Duluth, and Dr. Carolyn Sigler. "Victorian Literature." <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">http://www.d.umn.edu/~csigler/Victorian.html //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">. University of Minnesota Duluth Welcomes You. Spring 2011. Web. 03 Feb. 2011. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">This site gives a vast of resources that range from census to botany and the environment. I give links for the Victorian Era online. New subjects I spotted were phycology and medicine. One page mention is Bibliography of Victorian Preaching. Also along with the preaching, the site lists the number of religions that came about and links for those religions. This site gives passages that describe women activity and their ideals back then. This site also offered sites about fashion of men, women, and children. Lastly, site lists a number of authors that were in the era. The following authors were Jane Austen, Bronte sisters, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lewis Carrol, Joseph Conrad, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Florence Nightingale, Sir Arthur Doyle, Elizabeth Gaskell, Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, William Thackeray, Alfred Tennyson, and Bram Stroker. I used this website to gain information on subjects I did not have about the Victorian Era or to gain information on subjects I was weak on. I also used this site to gain more information on certain authors.