Information of the life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Following the Reform Bill of 1832, the flourishing of statistical societies popular agitations, and parliamentary committees helped to awaken a spirit of social concern in the whole nation, although some hardheaded observers saw it rather as a…

King of United Kingdom including Queen Victoria's family tree

This article examines how Wilkie Collins denies imperialist assumptions about the fundamental differences between British people and indigenous colonial residents, as well as revealing British insecurities which might underlie such assumptions.

This image comes from a printed guide to the Great Exhibition, offering both a description and a drawing of the Koh-i-Noor diamond.

This novel by Wilkie Collins follows the journey of the mysterious Moonstone from its theft by a British soldier in India to the many lives it affects when it is taken to England. Through the adventure of the Moonstone, several British characters…

Editorial cartoon depicting Charles Darwin as an ape (1871).

     A quote by Benjamin Disraeli reads, “The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.” Victorian novelist, Charles Dickens exemplified this in its entirety; using his literary gift to…