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Three months later, Walter had to leave limmeridge house because Laura’s future husband, sir Percival, was coming. Walter was worried that sir Percival was the evil aristocrat Anne had mentioned.
A day after their arrival, sir Percival tried to force Laura to sign a document. Laura refused and sir Percival became angry, but the count was able to tam

THE WAY UP TO HEAVEN
Mr and Mrs Foster lived on east sixty – second street. They lived in a large six – story house with 4 servants. If the servants didn’t stay there, the house would be a gloomy place. Mrs Foster had a little problem, she had a patological fear of missing trains, plans, boats. She was terrified at the idea of being late o

One day Mrs foster decided to visit her daughter living in Paris. Mrs Foster was very happpy to visit her daughter in Paris since he had never done it before but she had always langed for it. Mr Foster had told her he wanted let her go to Paris if she ablel to catch the plane on time.
So, the next day saw her off to the airport even thought their tr

The pressure for reform
After the French Revolution, Britain had turned politically conservative. Industrial regions of
the country were not so well represented, votes had to be declared publicly, was often subject to
bribery or intimidation. These factors gave rise to the working class Chartist movement. The Chartists' demands contained six

The Victorian families were generally very large and also the Queen had a lot of children, who she brought with her (with the teachers and the servants) during her frequent travels. In the society and in the families was always underlined the difference between women and men, also in the education system. Women were considered in a particular way: they

Factory owners and new businessmen mostly interested in profits and all too often they did not care about their workers. Despite progress and reform the living conditions of the poor remained miserable. There was a marked division of society into three classes; the aristocracy, the middle class(upper and lower)and the working class(the poor). The Victo

Moreover in this period queen Victoria and her husband opened the GREAT EXEBITION in Hyde Park where the Crystal Palace, made of glass and iron, and it contained the exhibitions of modern industry and science such as machinery, jewellery and products of all kinds from all over the world, and a lot of visitors were impressed by the technical and scienti

1836: The Pickwick Papers, characterized by a mixture of comic and picaresque.
He was conscious of political incompetence, social injustice, poverty and class conflicts of the Victorian Age:Oliver Twist; “Nicholas Nickleby” and “Martin Chuzzleweit” where he attacks cruelty in boarding schools; “Hard Times” based on the theme of Utilitarian

Early Victorian novelists: Charles dickens is the most representative literary figure of the Victorian age. He is the first truly urban novelist. Many of his novel was set in London, and in them he captures the incredible vitality of life in the city, as well as the squalor and deprivation that many of its inhabitants were forced to endure. He wrote ab

It was a complex and contradictory era: it was the age of progress, stability, great social reforms but it was also characterised by poverty, injustice and social unrest. The Victorians promoted a code of values that reflect the world as they wanted it to be, not as it really was, based on personal duty, hard work, respectability and charity. In thi per