Show Notes

Courtney and Eleanor discuss some of the major historical events, writers, and genres that shaped the early to mid-Victorian period.

Transcript here.

Resources for this episode included:

• Sally Mitchell’s Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia
• Timeline of Victorian Legislation on Victorian Web
• Stats from At the Circulating Library
• Alexandre Dumas’s publications
• The Oxford (or High Church) Movement
• Read The Lifted Veil at the George Eliot Archive
• Read open access scholarship about The Lifted Veil on George Eliot Scholars

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