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| - Victoria's reign: 1837-1901
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| - Victorian literature: 1830-1870
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| - Victorian houses lavishly furnished; overdecorated by today's standards
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| - Structured, proper society
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| - Rules and regulations for behavior, dating, social interaction were very strict
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| - Patriarchal households
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| - Lot of emphasis on what was proper and what was not
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| - Poor - uneducated, lack of reading and/or writing skills
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| - Emergence of the middle class
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| - Inventions - railroad, electricity and running water (latter part of the 19th century, telegraph
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