Confined women's social role as well as their waistlines.
What is a corset?
100
Something that had to be stifled and repressed in order to maintain a refined society.
What is sexuality?
100
Influential Victorian author with a tendency toward sentimentality, complex plots and happy endings.
Who is Charles Dickens?
100
Class of people that are the protagonists in most Victorian era literature.
Who are aristocrats?
100
Ruler of England and namesake of the era.
Who is Queen Victoria?
200
Gloomy, drafty and big with curtains and large upholstered chairs.
What is a Victorian house?
200
Member of society that functioned socially, on the family level and in the household.
What is woman?
200
A family of short-lived novelists who nevertheless became some of the greatest writers of the era.
Who are the Bronte sisters?
200
Profession that young, working class boys often entered into in order to support their families. Idealized by Dickens and Mary Poppins.
What is chimney sweeping?
200
Scarcity of food in Ireland.
What is the Potato Famine?
300
Reason why people had horrible teeth.
What is imported sugar?
300
The poster boy of the Victorian Era - high class, refined, polished and urbane.
What is the Victorian gentleman?
300
Female Victorian novelist who wrote under a male pen name. Author of Middlemarch.
Who is George Eliot?
300
Societal response to sexual repression and puritanism.
What is prostitution?
300
Definitive collection of the English language.
What is the Webster Dictionary?
400
A dress style representative of both Victorian fashion and Victorian social gatherings.
What is a ballgown?
400
Belief informing sexual repression, morality and purity.
What is Christianity?
400
Said by some to be the overarching theme of all Victorian literature - think Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Bleak House.
What is marriage?
400
Young people working in the mines, on the streets, in brothels and on rooftops.
What is child labor?
400
Significant step forward for the Women's Rights Movement.
What is the Married Women's Property Act?
500
New "romantic" location featuring in novels and society.
What are the Scottish Highlands?
500
Aristocratic development evident in the travels of Bronte's Elizabeth and of Dickens' Lady Dedlock - traveling about the country on house calls and visits.
What is social mobility?
500
Significant changes in literary style and tone that happened after Charles Dickens' death.
What are grim and realistic?
500
The term for men being able to divorce their wives for adultery, while women must prove adultery AND cruelty to the court.
What is a double standard?
500
A book is published that revolutionized scientific thought forever.