Literary Movement Reading Challenge 2015 – June: Victorian (1837 – 1901)

Victorian novels tend to be idealised portraits of difficult lives in which hard work, perseverance, love and luck win out in the end; virtue would be rewarded and wrongdoers are suitably punished. They tended to be of an improving nature with a central moral lesson at heart. For the majority of writers and thinkers, the inequality present in Victorian society was a kind of illness that would sooner or later come to a tipping point. Many intellectuals saw it as their duty to speak out against the injustices of this new and frightening world. The philosophy of female emancipation, however, became a rallying point for many female Victorian writers and thinkers. [Source 1] [Source 2]

Some of the Victorian authors:

(you may pick other authors outside the list)

Charles Dickens

William Thackeray

the Brontë sisters

George Elliot

Thomas Hardy

George Bernard Shaw

Oscar Wilde

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Rudyard Kipling

Robert Louis Stevenson

You can submit your review posts on Victorian books in the linky below (linky will be opened on June 15^th, 2015)