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[[File:Crown_Princess_Victoria_002.jpg|link=Pimped-Out Dress|frame|Everything was prim and proper, even when [[Ermine Cape Effect|looking grand]].]] |
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Ah, Victorian Britain. A place of tumultuous social, cultural, and technological change that is [[Never Live It Down|unfairly remembered today as the embodiment of stale and frumpy traditionalism]]. Victorian Britain is significant for being the birthplace of the modern middle class, for the rapid and jarring transformation to a highly industrialized nation, the massive expansion of [[The British Empire]], some [[Elegant Gothic Lolita|truly fantastic fashions]], and, yes, an anxious over-emphasis on morality and propriety... that only barely masked a dark and seedy underbelly of society. |
Ah, Victorian Britain. A place of tumultuous social, cultural, and technological change that is [[Never Live It Down|unfairly remembered today as the embodiment of stale and frumpy traditionalism]]. Victorian Britain is significant for being the birthplace of the modern middle class, for the rapid and jarring transformation to a highly industrialized nation, the massive expansion of [[The British Empire]], some [[Elegant Gothic Lolita|truly fantastic fashions]], and, yes, an anxious over-emphasis on morality and propriety... that only barely masked a dark and seedy underbelly of society. |
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Victorian Britain produced some of the finest literature of the English language canon, and also some of the [[It Was a Dark and Stormy Night|most famous turgid and overwrought prose in history.]] |
Victorian Britain produced some of the finest literature of the English language canon, and also some of the [[It Was a Dark and Stormy Night|most famous turgid and overwrought prose in history.]] |
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Frequently, but by no means [[Britain Is Only London|always]], overlaps with [[Victorian London]]. |
Frequently, but by no means [[Britain Is Only London|always]], overlaps with [[Victorian London]]. |
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The Victorian Era overlaps greatly with the period historians call the Industrial Revolution, and this was greatly influential to society and culture of the day. The Industrial Revolution was a period starting the previous century, greatly advancing progress in machinery, especially related to manufacture of goods, and mining of coal - which of course, was self-perpetuating, the greater mining of coal creating further ability to improve and increase use of steam engines. Other advantages, such as easy transportation about the island, and the increasing use of trains, led to the industrial revolution completely changing the economy of Britain, and then eventually continental Europe and the United States. |
The Victorian Era overlaps greatly with the period historians call the Industrial Revolution, and this was greatly influential to society and culture of the day. The Industrial Revolution was a period starting the previous century, greatly advancing progress in machinery, especially related to manufacture of goods, and mining of coal - which of course, was self-perpetuating, the greater mining of coal creating further ability to improve and increase use of steam engines. Other advantages, such as easy transportation about the island, and the increasing use of trains, led to the industrial revolution completely changing the economy of Britain, and then eventually continental Europe and the United States. |
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However, this also was responsible for the switch between the "cottage industries" and the factory economies. Instead of jobs being mostly based in at-home businesses, production began to occur more and more in factories, leading to most people moving to cities and working for very little in dangerous and long positions. |
However, this also was responsible for the switch between the "cottage industries" and the factory economies. Instead of jobs being mostly based in at-home businesses, production began to occur more and more in factories, leading to most people moving to cities and working for very little in dangerous and long positions. |
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On the other hand, it was the beginning of class mobility in some ways; the Victorian Era was the first time that there was a real middle class, rather than the feudal division of common and aristocracy. |
On the other hand, it was the beginning of class mobility in some ways; the Victorian Era was the first time that there was a real middle class, rather than the feudal division of common and aristocracy. |
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