Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

General Resources

Encyclopedias

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REF 809 LIT Literature and its times , vol. 2 pps. 261-67

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REF 809 LIT Literary Lifelines vol. 3 pps.84-85

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823 DIC Charles Dickens Great Expectations: Bloom's Notes

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823 DIC Readings on Charles Dickens

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823 DIC Readings on Charles Dickens' Great Expectations

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941.081 VIC Victorian England

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942 QUE A history of everyday things in England vol. 3

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942 QUE A history of everyday things in England vol. 4

Encyclopedia of British History 1700-1950 http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Britain.html
(Comprehensive site on British History and society. Scan the site for information. Lots of it here!!!!!! Use the Search feature to search the site.)

Victorian Web Sites

Victorian Web http://www.victorianweb.org Use the Search Tool to search the site. (Provides links to many sites related to specific topics below. Dig into the site.)

The Victorians http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/victorians - Site for children but contains useful info

What the Victorians did for us http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/victorians/

Child labor / Working Conditions / Orphans
(Check the links under Industrial Revolution below )

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909.81 ARN [vol. 1,2,3] The industrial revolution

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909.81 IND Industrial revolution

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942.081 MIT Daily life in Victorian England

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942.081 YAN Life in Charles Dickens England

Child Labour in 19th Century http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.htm

The textile industry http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Textiles.htm

Government Legislation http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/legislation.htm

Peel Web http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/peelhome.htm

The Poor Law http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/pltopic.htm

Dickens, Charles

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820.9 VIC Victorian literature

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823 DIC Readings on Charles Dickens

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823 DIC Charles Dickens: the importance of

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823 DIC Charles Dickens: Modern critical views

Charles Dickens; an overview http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/dickensov.html

Charles Dickens http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/CD-Shelston.html?

Charles Dickens http://www.helsinki.fi/kasv/nokol/dickens.html

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=dic-25
(Contains links to criticism of Dickens work)

David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/
(Dickens' London discusses the influences life and social events had on his writing)

Gad's Hill Place http://www.perryweb.com/Dickens/

Great expectations http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/ge/geov.html

Life of Dickens from the Dickens Project at the University of California http://humwww.ucsc.edu/dickens/

Education

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909.81 ARN [vol. 1] The industrial revolution

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941.081 VIC Victorian England

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942 QUE A history of everyday things in England vol. 4

Corporal Punishment Archive - Caning in 19th century British schools http://www.archivist.f2s.com/cpa/mainpage.htm

Education 1700-1950 http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/education.htm

Government Legislation http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/legislation.htm

Victorian Web Social History Links http://www.victorianweb.org/history/sochistov.html

Education and the lives of children http://www.victorianweb.org/history/sochistov.html

Etiquette / Social customs

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942 QUE A history of everyday things in England vol. 4

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391 SIC History of children's costume

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391 SIC History of men's costume

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391 SIC History of women's costume

19th century women's Fashion History http://womenshistory.about.com/od/fashion19th/

The Language of the Fan

A Victorian Christmas

Victorian Dancing Etiquette

Victorian Fashion http://www.museumofcostume.co.uk/index.cfm?UUID=CDC42EA0-1672-4EC7-BE8CBD92680DC628 Pick from the links on the right

Victorian Fashion Dresses http://www.marquise.de/en/1800/pics/1800c.shtml

Victorian Era http://www.victoriana.com/ Lots of information on etiquette and social customs of the Victorian Era

Victoriana Behind Closed Doors- Queen Victoria on Pregnancy

Victoriana Library, Calling Card Etiquette

Woman's Place in 19th century Victorian England
http://www.fashion-era.com/a_womans_place.htm

Women's issues in Victorian England http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~ulrich/femhist/index.shtml - Use the links on the right hand column to pick topics

Industrial Revolution

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909.81 IND Industrial revolution

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909.81 ARN [vol. 1,2,3] The industrial revolution

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941.07 IND The industrial revolution in England - blessing or curse to the working man

Child Labor http://www.victorianweb.org/history/hist8.html

Domestic Life in 19th Century England http://www.victorianweb.org/gender/femeconov.html

Trade and Industry http://www.victorianweb.org/technology/technolov.html

The Impact of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain http://www2.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/ukindrev.htm

The Impact of the Industrial Revolution http://www.victorianweb.org/technology/technolov.html

Industrial Revolution http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REVhistoryIR2.htm

The Industrial Revolution of the Eighteenth Century

Second Industrial Revolution from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook35.html

Yahoo Industrial Revolution Links http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/By_Subject/Business/Industrial_Revolution/

Prisons / Workhouses (Poor Houses) / Elizabeth Fry

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942.081 MIT Daily life in Victorian England

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942.081 YAN Life in Charles Dickens England

Elizabeth Fry http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REfry.htm

Government Legislation http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/legislation.htm

London in the 19th Century http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/London.htm

Newgate Prision http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/LONnewgate.htm

Newgate Prison http://www.fred.net/jefalvey/newgate.html

Victoriana http://www.victoriana.com/welcome/
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Victoria, Queen of England

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941.081 VIC Queen Victoria; the importance of

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941.081 VIC Queen Victoria; World leaders past & present

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941.081 VIC Farewell to splendor; the passing of Queen Victoria and her age

Queen Victoria http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRvictoria.htm

Queen Victoria http://www.victorianweb.org/vn/victor6.html

Working Class, Middle Class, Gentry/Upper Class

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942.081 MIT Daily life in Victorian England

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942.081 YAN Life in Charles Dickens England

Childhood http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/sources.htm

Economics and social conditions http://www.victorianweb.org/history/sochistov.html

The emancipation of women http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/resource.htm

Gentleman http://www.victorianweb.org/history/Gentleman.html

Government Legislation http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/legislation.htm

London http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ITlondon.htm
(Skim the article to find the descriptions of working class life)

London Low-Life : Beggars and Cheats

Plight of Women's work in the early industrial revolution http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/lesson7.html

Poor Law Unions / Registration Districts http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/humanities_and_soc_sciences/census/unions.htm

Population of Great Britain & Ireland 1570-1931 http://www.gendocs.demon.co.uk/pop.html

Social Class in Victorian England http://www.victorianweb.org/history/sochistov.html

The trade union movement http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TU.htm

Victorian Economics: An Overview http://www.victorianweb.org/economics/econov.html

Victorian Web Social History Links http://www.victorianweb.org/history/sochistov.html

Wages, the Cost of Living, Contemporary Equivalents to Victorian Money http://www.victorianweb.org/economics/wages.html

RVHS English Department
Great Expectations Project