VICTORIAN ERA (1824-1914)

  1. A painting of the Bronte sisters that was found folded in an attic (the brother, after his unrespectable death, was erased).
  2. Tennyson, young and old.
  3. An illustration of Tennyson's Idylls of the King (a Victorian version of the Arthurian tales) by Gustave Dore.
  4. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) young and old. Dickens and Shakespeare are probably the two most global of English authors.
  5. The death of Bill Sikes: a famous scene from Dickens' Oliver Twist (1838).
  6. John Ruskin (1819-1900): Victorian "sage-prophet" who popularized the idea that art is, and must be, useful because it is based on morality.
  7. Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909): "racy" Victorian poet.
  8. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881): Victorian philosopher---"sage of Cheyne Walk" to some, prophet of fascism to others.
  9. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882): Portrait as a young artist.