Great Expectations Pathfinder

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General books on the Victorian era are located in the Dewey numbers:
    909.81 
    941.081
    942
    942.073
    942.08

Additional books may be located in the Dewey numbers:
    304.42
    306.0942
    330.9034
    331.31
    362.5
    609.41
    709.42
    747.22
    790
    823.8

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    Child Labor--Great Britain--History
    Children--Great Britain
    Decoration and Ornament--Victorian Style
    England--Civilization--19th Century
    England--Intellectual Life--19th Century
    England in Literature
    England--Social Conditions--19th Century
    England--Social Life and Customs--19th Century
    Family--England--History--19th Century
    Great Britain--History--Great Britain--19th Century--Encyclopedias
    Interior Decoration--Great Britain--History--19th Century
    Poor--England--History--19th Century
    Recreation--Great Britain--History
    Technology--History--19th Century
    Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
    Women--England--History--19th Centur
    Women--England--Social Conditions
     Working Class Women--Great Britain--History--19th Century

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 Great Expectations: The Novel
   • Text of the Book
   • Notes and Discussions
  
Victorian England 
   • General Victorian England Sites
   • Architecture and Decor
   • Charles Dickens
   • Children
   • Daily Life in Victorian England
   • Education
   • Fashion
   • Labor
   • Leisure and Entertainment
   • Literature
   • Medicine and Health
   • Politics and Politicians
   • Science and Technology
   • Social Conditions
   • Women

Text of the Book

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens | Search, Read, Study, Discuss
http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/greatexpectations

Notes and Discussions

Great Expectations: An Overview
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/ge/geov.html

Discovering Dickens - A Community Reading Project
http://dickens.stanford.edu/archive/great/expectations.html

Great Expectations Book Notes Summary by Charles Dickens
http://www.bookrags.com/notes/gex

The Atlantic | September 1861 | Review of Great Expectations
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/classrev/greatexp.htm

General Victorian England Sites

The Victorian Web: An Overview
http://www.victorianweb.org

BBC - History - Victorians
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians

Victorian England
http://home.pacbell.net/gpeterma/victorian.html

The Victorian Dictionary - Exploring Victorian London
http://www.victorianlondon.org

Victorian England
http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/VictorianEngland.htm

Victorian Britain 1837-1901 - A Simple Chronology
http://www.dur.ac.uk/alan.heesom/chronology.htm

Architecture and Decor

Victorian Architecture: An Overview
http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/index.html

High Victorian Gothic in England
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/hvgothic.html

Gothic Revival Architecture in England
http://www.britainexpress.com/architecture/gothic-revival.htm

Victorian Houses
http://www.aboutbritain.com/articles/victorian-houses.asp

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens: An Overview
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/dickensov.html

David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page
http://charlesdickenspage.com/index.html

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

Charles Dickens - Biography and Works
http://www.online-literature.com/dickens

The Dickens Page: Charles Dickens (1812-70)
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Dickens.html

Dickens | PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/dickens

Charles Dickens
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dickens.htm

A Dickens Chronology
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/CD-Chro.html

Children

Victorian Children
http://www.aboutbritain.com/articles/victorian-children.asp

Daily Life in Victorian England

Nineteenth Century Family Life
http://www.umd.umich.edu/casl/hum/eng/classes/434/charweb/breen1.htm

Education

BBC - History - Victorian Classroom Life
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/victorian_britain/education_health/classroom_life_01.shtml

Victorian Schools
http://www.aboutbritain.com/articles/victorian-schools.asp

Ragged Schools - Charles Dickens
http://www.maybole.org/history/articles/raggedschoolscharlesdickens.htm

Charles Dickens on Ragged Schooling
http://www.infed.org/archives/e-texts/dickens_ragged_schools.htm

Fashion

Victorian Era 1837-1901 Victorian Fashion History, Costume Social History
http://www.fashion-era.com/the_victorian_era.htm

What Victorians Wore: An Overview of Victorian Costume
http://www.victorianweb.org/art/costume/costumeov.html

Clothing of the Victorian Era
http://trulyvictorian.netfirms.com/history.html

Victorian Trivia
http://www.victoriasjewelrybox.com/victorian-trivia.html

Victorian Clothes
http://www.aboutbritain.com/articles/victorian-clothes.asp

Labor

Work: Victorian Era
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~city19c/viccity/work.html

BBC - History - Working Life and the First Modern Census
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/victorian_britain/earning_a_living/working_life_census_01.shtml

The Story of Workhouses
http://users.ox.ac.uk/%7Epeter/workhouse/index.html

The Life of the Industrial Worker in 19th-Century Britain
http://www.geocities.com/couple_colour/Worker

BBC - History - Women's Work
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/womens_work_01.shtml

Child Labour
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.htm

Child Labor and the British Industrial Revolution
http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=3879

Child Labor During the British Industrial Revolution
http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/tuttle.labor.child.britain

General Appearance of Mill Workers
http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/primarysources/lowell/docs/dickens.html

Leisure and Entertainment

Victorian Leisure
http://tofino.ex.ac.uk/virvic/themes/leisure/home.htm

BBC - History - Victorian Sport: Playing by the Rules
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/sport_01.shtml

Victorian Fun and Games - Other Victorian Pastimes
http://www.logicmgmt.com/1876/funandgames/pastimes.htm

Victorian Games and Toys
http://www.aboutbritain.com/articles/victorian-games-and-toys.asp

BBC - History - The Victorian Seaside
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/seaside_01.shtml

Literature

Authors Discussed in the Victorian Web
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/index.html

English literature: The Victorian Age
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0858005.html

The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Victorian Age
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/victorian/welcome.htm

Dickens and the Victorian Serial Novel
http://www.umd.umich.edu/casl/hum/eng/classes/434/geweb/THEHISTO.htm

Victorian Detective Fiction
http://www.crimeculture.com/Contents/VictorianCrime.html

The Sensation Novel | Introduction
http://www.enotes.com/nineteenth-century-criticism/sensation-novel

The Sensation Novel: “The Secret Theatre of Home”
http://www.guypetersreviews.com/sensation.php

All about Sherlock Holmes
http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/cops_others/sherlock_holmes/1.html

Contemporary Biography of Wilkie Collins
http://www.wilkiecollins.com

Medicine and Health

Nineteenth-Century British Medicine and Public Health Overview
http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/healthov.html

Politics and Politicians

     Politics
         • Political History: An Overview

     Politicians
         • Prime Ministers and Political Personalities
         • Sir Robert Peel
         • Lord John Russell
         • Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
         • George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
         • Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston
         • Benjamin Disraeli
         • William Ewart Gladstone
         • Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 9th Earl of Salisbury
         • Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

Political History: An Overview

Victorian Political History: An Overview
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/index.html

History of Great Britain: Victorian Era 1837-1854
http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=1159&HistoryID=ab07

History of Great Britain: Victorian Era 1854-1901
http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=449&HistoryID=ab07

Prime Ministers and Political Personalities

Political Personalities: 1815-1880
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/peelpol.htm

BBC - History - Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/victoria_ministers_01.shtml

Sir Robert Peel

Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850)
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/pms/peelbio.htm

Sir Robert Peel
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page151.asp

Lord John Russell

Lord John Russell (1792-1878)
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/pms/russell.htm

Earl Russell
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page148.asp

Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby

Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799 -- 1869)
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/pms/derby.htm

Earl of Derby
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page147.asp

George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen

George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784-1860)
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/pms/aberdeen.htm

Earl of Aberdeen
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page150.asp

Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston

Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865)
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/pms/palmerst.htm

Viscount Palmerston
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page149.asp

Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli (1804 -- 1881)
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/pms/dizzy.htm

Benjamin Disraeli
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page146.asp

Benjamin Disraeli
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRdisraeli.htm

BBC - History - Disraeli and Gladstone: Opposing Forces
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/disraeli_gladstone_01.shtml

William Ewart Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898)
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/pms/gladston.htm

William Ewart Gladstone
http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page145.asp

William Ewart Gladstone
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page145.asp

Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 9th Earl of Salisbury

Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 9th Earl of Salisbury (1830-1903)
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/pms/salisbur.htm

Marquess of Salisbury
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page144.asp

Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929)
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/pms/rosebery.htm

Earl of Rosebery
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page143.asp

Science and Technology

ictorian Science: An Overview
http://www.victorianweb.org/science/index.html

Victorian Technology
http://www.victorianweb.org/technology/index.html

BBC - History - Victorian Technology
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/victorian_technology_01.shtml

BBC - History - Britain as Workshop of the World
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/victorian_britain/industry_invention/britain_workshopworld_01.shtml

The Industrial Revolution and the Railway System
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/ind_rev/index.html

Victorian Railways
http://www.aboutbritain.com/articles/victorian-railways.asp

Social Conditions

Victorian Social History: An Overview
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/sochistov.html

BBC - History - London's 'Great Stink' and Victorian Urban Planning
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/victorian_britain/social_conditions/victorian_urban
planning_01.shtm

BBC - History - The Rise of the Victorian Middle Class
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/middle_classes_01.shtml

Women

BBC - History - Ideals of Womanhood in Victorian Britain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/victorian_britain/women_home/ideals_womanhood_01.shtml

BBC - History - Women and Urban Life in Victorian Britain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/victorian_britain/women_out/urban_life_01.shtml

Women of Victorian England
http://crayzray.tripod.com/clpage/writtings/other/victorian_women.htm

Property Rights of Women
http://www.umd.umich.edu/casl/hum/eng/classes/434/geweb/PROPERTY.htm

Women's Life
http://www.victoriaspast.com/LifeofVictorianWoman/LifeofVictorianWoman.html

Courting the Victorian Woman
http://www.literary-liaisons.com/article009.html