Great Expectations
Mrs. White

Topics:
Charles Dickens *Victorian England (19th Century) *Crime and Prisons in 19th Century England *Realism *Industrial Revolution *Victorian England Educational System

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301.34 URB The Urbanization of European Society in the Nineteenth Century
306.0941 IND Industrial Revolution and British Society
509 SPA The History of Science in the Nineteenth Century
B DIC Charles Dickens, His Tragedy and Triumph
942.081 BUR The Pageant of Early Victorian England, 1837-1861
942.081 ASH Victorian England
942.081 MIT Daily Life in Victorian England
942.081 REA  Life in Victorian England

REF 803 BEC  A Readers Guide to Literary Terms
REF 803 SHI Dictionary of World Literary Terms, Forms, Technique, Criticism.
REF 820.3 CHA  Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature
REF 820.3 CON The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature
REF 820.3 RUO Crowell's Handbook of Elizabethan & Stuart Literature
REF 820.9 BRI British Writers
REF 823.8 DAV Charles Dickens A to Z
REF 823.9 NEL Charles Dickens
REF 823 FAC The Facts on File Companion to the British Novel

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Charles Dickens-Biography from the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/dickens_charles.shtml

Industrial Revolution
http://www.42explore2.com/industrial.htm

Victorian Prisons-United Kingdom National Archives
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/lesson24.htm

Victorian Web
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/index.html

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January 27, 2012 SLRHS Library Online Mrs. White English-Great Expectations