Following the tragic death of her husband Prince Albert in 1861, Queen Victoria famously wore black mourning attire for the rest of her life. Which dark, polished fossilized wood material became extremely fashionable for mourning jewelry during this period?
In which year did the British Parliament pass the Royal Titles Act, officially conferring upon Queen Victoria the title of Empress of India
1876
In Victorian middle-and-upper-class social etiquette, what was the primary physical gesture or convention associated with leaving a "calling card" at an acquaintance’s home if they were not home or receiving visitors
Tearing of the corner of a card to indicate an in person visit
The Great Exhibition of 1851, housed in the revolutionary glass-and-iron structure known as the Crystal Palace, was primarily championed and organized by which prominent figure
Detective fiction surged in popularity during the late Victorian era. In which 1887 novel did Arthur Conan Doyle first introduce the iconic consulting detective Sherlock Holmes
A study in scarlet
Opened in 1863, which revolutionary urban transit system in London became the world's first underground passenger railway
The metropolitan railway
The repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 marked a major turning point in British economic policy during early Victoria's reign. What did these controversial laws regulate
The tariffs and import duties on foreign grain
Which Victorian author, born Mary Ann Evans, wrote the masterpiece Middlemarch (1871–72) under a male pseudonym?
George Eliot
The prevailing Victorian ideology regarding gender roles famously designated the home and domestic hearth as the moral domain of women, while commerce, industry, and politics belonged to men. What term is commonly used by historians to describe this concept
Separate spheres
Charles Darwin published his groundbreaking work introducing the theory of evolution by natural selection, On the Origin of Species, in which year?
1859