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[[Image:Victoria1837Engraving.jpg|right|thumbnail|300px|Queen Victoria (shown here on the morning of her Accession to the Throne, June 20, 1837) gave her name to the historic era.]] The Victorian Era of United Kingdom is considered the height of the British industrial revolution and the apex of the British Empire. It is often defined as the years from 1837 to 1901, when Victoria of the United Kingdom reigned, though many historians believe that the passage of the Reform Act 1832 marks the true inception of a new cultural era. The Victorian era was preceded by the English Regency and came before the Edwardian period. ==Politics== The period is ostensibly characterized as a long period of peace and economic, colonial, and industrial consolidation, temporarily disrupted by the Crimean War. Towards the end of the century, the policies of New Imperialism led to increasing colonial conflicts and eventually the Boer War. Domestically, the agenda was increasingly liberal with a number of shifts in the direction of gradual political reform and the widening of the franchise. In the early part of the era the British House of Commons was dominated by the two parties, the Whigs and the Conservative Party (UK). From the late 1850s onwards the Whigs became the Liberal Party (UK). Many prominent statesmen led one or other of the parties, including William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Sir Robert Peel, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, William Ewart Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield and Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury. The unsolved problems relating to Ireland played a great part in politics in the later Victorian era, particularly in view of Gladstone's determination to achieve a political settlement. In January 1858, the Prime Minister, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, responded to the Orsini plot against French emperor Napoleon III, the bombs for which were purchased in Birmingham, by attempting to make such acts a felony, but the resulting uproar forced him to resign. In July 1866, an angry crowd in London, protesting Russell's resignation as prime minister, was barred from Hyde Park by the police; it tore down iron railings and trampled the flower beds. Disturbances like this convinced Derby and Disraeli of the need for further parliamentary reform. During 1875 Britain purchased Egypt's shares in the Suez Canal as the African nation was forced to raise money to pay off its debts. In 1882 Egypt became a protectorate of Great Britain after British troops occupied land surrounding the Suez Canal in order to secure the vital trade route, and the passage to India. In 1884 the Fabian Society was founded in London by a group of middle-class intellectuals, including Quaker Edward Pease, 17, Havelock Ellis, 25, and Edith Nesbit, 26, to promote socialism. George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells would be among many famous names to later join this society. On Sunday, November 13, 1887, tens of thousands of people, many of them Socialism or unemployed, gathered in Trafalgar Square to demonstrate against the government. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Charles Warren ordered armed soldiers and 2,000 police constables to respond. Rioting broke out, hundreds were injured and two people died. This event was referred to as Bloody Sunday 1887. ==Science, technology and engineering== [[Image:Bristol csb from bw evening.jpg|thumb|Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol]] The impetus of the industrial revolution had already occurred, but it was during this period that the full effects of industrialisation made themselves felt, leading to the mass society of the 20th century. The revolution led to the rise of railways across the country and massive leaps forward in engineering, most famously by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. During the Victorian era, science grew into the discipline it is today. In addition to the increasing professionalism of university science, many Victorian gentlemen devoted their time to the study of natural history. Charles Darwin's ''On the Origin of Species'' was published in 1859 and had a tremendous effect on the popular mindset. In January 1863, Prime Minister Gladstone opened the first section of the London Underground. In 1882, incandescent electric lights were introduced to London streets, although it took many long years before they were installed everywhere. ==Culture== Notable cultural elements of the Victorian era include: In literature: *The novels of George Eliot, Thomas Love Peacock, Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Anne Brontë, Wilkie Collins, Oscar Wilde, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, Margaret Oliphant, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Lewis Carroll, Anthony Trollope , Robert Louis Stevenson and Thomas Hardy. *The British poetry of Alfred Tennyson, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Matthew Arnold, Christina Rossetti, Emily Brontë, Lionel Johnson, Ernest Dowson, the young W.B. Yeats, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A.E. Housman and Robert Browning *The essays of Thomas Carlyle, John Henry Newman, John Stuart Mill, and Walter Pater. Of particular interest is the decade of the 1890s, which saw the first attempts by English writers to adopt the methods and ideals of the French symbolists. In drama: *Stage adaptions of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and of the new genre of vampire novels. In 1849 The Frankenstein and Vampire stories are finally combined in ''Frankenstein; or The Vampire's Victim''. In 1887, ''The Model Man'', a stage play in which the Frankenstein monster and a vampire were tracked to the Arctic, appeared in London. *The wit and drama of Oscar Wilde. *Controversy over the plays of Henrik Ibsen on the London stage, with men such as James Joyce and George Bernard Shaw supporting the new dramatic style of the frosty Norwegian. In music: *The operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan [[Image:Palace.of.westminster.arp.750pix.jpg|thumb|The Palace of Westminster was rebuilt in the Victorian era]] In the visual arts: *The Gothic revival movement in architecture *John Ruskin, the first major English art critic. *The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in art (partly inspired by Ruskin). *The Clique *William Morris' Arts and Crafts movement. *The influence of the aesthetic ideal of American painter James McNeill Whistler. *The reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain, from 1837 to 1901, was Britain's Golden Age, and it was also the Golden Age of British Art. There was peace at home, and prosperity increased, leading to conditions in which painting flourished. The era produced Constable, Turner, Landseer, Rossetti, Millais, Burne-Jones, Leighton, Watts and Whistler, all living in the reign of Queen Victoria (except for Constable who died in the year of Victoria's accession). There were some 11,000 recognized artists, many mediocre, but a great number with high talents and artistic accomplishment. In religion: *The Oxford/Tractarian movement in the early part of Victoria's reign. *In 1865 William Booth began the Salvation Army in London. *The rise of theosophism and other occult interests in the 1890s. The Victorian period is now often regarded as one of many contradictions. It is easy for many to see a clash between the widespread cultivation of an outward appearance of dignity and restraint, and the widespread presence of many arguably deplorable phenomena. These include prostitution, child labour, and having an economics based largely on what many would now see as the exploitation of colony through imperialism and of the working classes. The expression ''Victorian values'' thus may be two-edged. The term ''Victorian'' has acquired a range of connotations, including that of a particularly strict set of Morality standards, often applied hypocritically. (See Victorian morality.) ==Related topics== *Victorian architecture *Victorian fashion *History of British society *Women in the Victorian era ==Sources and further reading== *Altick, Richard Daniel. ''Victorian People and Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian Literature''. W.W. Norton & Company: 1974. ISBN 039309376X. *Burton, Antoinette (editor). ''Politics and Empire in Victorian Britain: A Reader''. Palgrave Macmillan: 2001. ISBN 0312293356. *Flanders, Judith. ''Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England''. W.W. Norton & Company: 2004. ISBN 0393052095. *Mitchell, Sally. ''Daily Life in Victorian England''. Greenwood Press: 1996. ISBN 0313294674. * Wilson, A. N. ''The Victorians''. Arrow Books: 2002. ISBN 0099451867 ==External links and references== *[http://www.victorianweb.org/ The Victorian Web] *[http://www.victorianlondon.org/ The Victorian Dictionary] Victorian era zh-cn:维多利亚时代
I'm not quite sure about the claim of Queen Victoria's naiivete in matters sexual, though of course it's likely she would have been so at first. There are, after all, the suggestions that in later life she carried on a discreet affair... User:-- April 08:45 Aug 12, 2002 (PDT) --- Why the distinction between books and novels? -User:Tubby :I don't think there is one; there's a distinction between those written by Dickens and Conan Doyle as one lump, and those by the Brontë sisters in another lump. Whether there's a purpose to that, I cannot say. --User:Brion VIBBER 23:32 Oct 22, 2002 (UTC) --- Why is the Franco-Prussian war mentioned in this context? One might just as well bring in ''any'' event of the later ninteenth century? The Crimean War? The Boer War? Both would be more relevant User:Djnjwd 01:17, 5 Sep 2003 (UTC) ---- What caused the prudishness of the era? User:Kingturtle 22:33, 18 Oct 2003 (UTC) ---- The last sentence of the article, comparing modern and Victorian values, is interesting. However, I'm not sure if it belongs in an encyclopedia. I have left this last sentence in, although I'm dubious about it, and I've taken out some of the less important (less ''characteristic'') items, in particular Jack the Ripper, as it seems to me from the discussion below that the consensus is not to have it. User:Djnjwd 23:33, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC) == Jack the Ripper == Jack the Ripper has been taken out of the article by 134.2.3.102 twice. Let's not get into an edit war, please. What are the reasons for linking the "Jack the Ripper" here, and what are the reasons not to do so? Let's discuss here and go with the consensus. -- User:Infrogmation 14:36, 19 May 2004 (UTC) :If interested only in Victorian era, one would expect Jack the Ripper. Do we need a separate article about "sociocultural phenomenon of the interest in a sex murderer, who by chance lived in the times" now "called victorian era"? What is your opinion, Carlos? -- User:199.217.251.218 21:31, 19 May 2004 (UTC) :: My asking was to try to understand why people were changing it back and forth and to avoid an edit war. Why does Jack the Ripper keep being added and keep being removed? I guess I mildly lean towards inclusion since he was famous in the era, but I'm willing to reconsider if someone can articlate reasons why this shouldn't be in the article. -- User:Infrogmation 14:07, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC) :::Giving the reasons once again (in more detail): :::(1)If interested only in the Victorian era, one would not expect Jack the Ripper, because the sociocultural phenomenon of the interest in a sex murderer is a sociocultural phenomenon of the present, or of the "modern times", if you like, but not of the Vicorian age in particular. :::(2) Jack the ripper, as one of many sex murderers who happened to live during the Victorian era, is by himself of no interest - the thing that interests about him is why and how he became the symbol he is today. Someone becoming a symbol and being referenced by popular culture is a sociocultural phenomenon (worthy to analyze, of course). But, as I said before, Jack the Ripper is not a sociocultural phenomenon of the Victorian era in particular (if he were, none of us would ever have heard his name). :::(3) The wikipedia page about the Victorian Age is supposed to give an outline of the era, that is, to mention the most important baselines. Now hypothetically: even if Jack the Ripper's fame were a phenomenon of the Victorian Age it is questionable whether his fame should be mentioned, as it produces a rather accidental impression to pick him out and leave others unmentioned. (Of course the latter affects the whole page - see the accidental range of writers mentioned.) :::(4) It should be most desirable that an historian specialized in the Victorian age attended to the page. Hey, historians out there..! ;-) -- User:134.2.18.33 14:03, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC) It's obvious that the IP address talking above has little to no information about what Jack the Ripper meant to the Victorians. The Ripper's fame was, in fact, a HUGE phenomena of the Victorian age. It's probably one of the items that got the most news coverage of the entire era. Here we have the seat of power for the world's greatest superpower and suddenly note only is a killer is mutilating woman on their doorstep, but the press jumps at the realization of the social and economic conditions of the slums that had such abject poverty in the midst of the most wealthy nation in the world. It was a huge phenomena, moreso to them than it is now. People today either sort of know of Jack as some old serial killer or a fictional character. People in the Victorian age knew Jack as the bogeyman that could show up anywhere and get anyone. He was a phantom who could not be caught, killing at will in an area that was densely populated and patrolled by police that covered every street on beats that crossed mossed areas every fifteen minutes. People across England and all the way to the US (at least as far out as Leadville, Colorado) amd down to Australia would work themselves into a hysteria that Jack was in their town. I don't for the life of me understand what 134 dot whatever means by "a rather accidental impression to pick him out and leave others unmentioned"... Leave other what unmentioned? Serial killers? There may as well not have ever been any others. News events? What got more coverage? Based upon this, I'm adding Jack back, based upon the idea that several people have argued in favor of his inclusion and only one unregistered person has argued against. -- User:DreamGuy Nov 14, 2004 == Copyright infringement == The three paragraphs commencing ''The period saw a huge amount of artistic production...'' appear to have been copied from [http://www.victorian-art.com/introduction.html]. I'm deleting them. Please restore them if you know that permission has been granted. User:Arcturus 17:57, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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[[Image:Victoria1837Engraving.jpg|right|thumbnail|300px|Queen Victoria (shown here on the morning of her Accession to the Throne, June 20, 1837) gave her name to the historic era.]] The Victorian Era of United Kingdom is considered the height of the British industrial revolution and the apex of the British Empire. It is often defined as the years from 1837 to 1901, when Victoria of the United Kingdom reigned, though many historians believe that the passage of the Reform Act 1832 marks the true inception of a new cultural era. The Victorian era was preceded by the English Regency and came before the Edwardian period. ==Politics== The period is ostensibly characterized as a long period of peace and economic, colonial, and industrial consolidation, temporarily disrupted by the Crimean War. Towards the end of the century, the policies of New Imperialism led to increasing colonial conflicts and eventually the Boer War. Domestically, the agenda was increasingly liberal with a number of shifts in the direction of gradual political reform and the widening of the franchise. In the early part of the era the British House of Commons was dominated by the two parties, the Whigs and the Conservative Party (UK). From the late 1850s onwards the Whigs became the Liberal Party (UK). Many prominent statesmen led one or other of the parties, including William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Sir Robert Peel, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, William Ewart Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield and Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury. The unsolved problems relating to Ireland played a great part in politics in the later Victorian era, particularly in view of Gladstone's determination to achieve a political settlement. In January 1858, the Prime Minister, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, responded to the Orsini plot against French emperor Napoleon III, the bombs for which were purchased in Birmingham, by attempting to make such acts a felony, but the resulting uproar forced him to resign. In July 1866, an angry crowd in London, protesting Russell's resignation as prime minister, was barred from Hyde Park by the police; it tore down iron railings and trampled the flower beds. Disturbances like this convinced Derby and Disraeli of the need for further parliamentary reform. During 1875 Britain purchased Egypt's shares in the Suez Canal as the African nation was forced to raise money to pay off its debts. In 1882 Egypt became a protectorate of Great Britain after British troops occupied land surrounding the Suez Canal in order to secure the vital trade route, and the passage to India. In 1884 the Fabian Society was founded in London by a group of middle-class intellectuals, including Quaker Edward Pease, 17, Havelock Ellis, 25, and Edith Nesbit, 26, to promote socialism. George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells would be among many famous names to later join this society. On Sunday, November 13, 1887, tens of thousands of people, many of them Socialism or unemployed, gathered in Trafalgar Square to demonstrate against the government. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Charles Warren ordered armed soldiers and 2,000 police constables to respond. Rioting broke out, hundreds were injured and two people died. This event was referred to as Bloody Sunday 1887. ==Science, technology and engineering== [[Image:Bristol csb from bw evening.jpg|thumb|Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol]] The impetus of the industrial revolution had already occurred, but it was during this period that the full effects of industrialisation made themselves felt, leading to the mass society of the 20th century. The revolution led to the rise of railways across the country and massive leaps forward in engineering, most famously by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. During the Victorian era, science grew into the discipline it is today. In addition to the increasing professionalism of university science, many Victorian gentlemen devoted their time to the study of natural history. Charles Darwin's ''On the Origin of Species'' was published in 1859 and had a tremendous effect on the popular mindset. In January 1863, Prime Minister Gladstone opened the first section of the London Underground. In 1882, incandescent electric lights were introduced to London streets, although it took many long years before they were installed everywhere. ==Culture== Notable cultural elements of the Victorian era include: In literature: *The novels of George Eliot, Thomas Love Peacock, Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Anne Brontë, Wilkie Collins, Oscar Wilde, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, Margaret Oliphant, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Lewis Carroll, Anthony Trollope , Robert Louis Stevenson and Thomas Hardy. *The British poetry of Alfred Tennyson, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Matthew Arnold, Christina Rossetti, Emily Brontë, Lionel Johnson, Ernest Dowson, the young W.B. Yeats, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A.E. Housman and Robert Browning *The essays of Thomas Carlyle, John Henry Newman, John Stuart Mill, and Walter Pater. Of particular interest is the decade of the 1890s, which saw the first attempts by English writers to adopt the methods and ideals of the French symbolists. In drama: *Stage adaptions of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and of the new genre of vampire novels. In 1849 The Frankenstein and Vampire stories are finally combined in ''Frankenstein; or The Vampire's Victim''. In 1887, ''The Model Man'', a stage play in which the Frankenstein monster and a vampire were tracked to the Arctic, appeared in London. *The wit and drama of Oscar Wilde. *Controversy over the plays of Henrik Ibsen on the London stage, with men such as James Joyce and George Bernard Shaw supporting the new dramatic style of the frosty Norwegian. In music: *The operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan [[Image:Palace.of.westminster.arp.750pix.jpg|thumb|The Palace of Westminster was rebuilt in the Victorian era]] In the visual arts: *The Gothic revival movement in architecture *John Ruskin, the first major English art critic. *The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in art (partly inspired by Ruskin). *The Clique *William Morris' Arts and Crafts movement. *The influence of the aesthetic ideal of American painter James McNeill Whistler. *The reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain, from 1837 to 1901, was Britain's Golden Age, and it was also the Golden Age of British Art. There was peace at home, and prosperity increased, leading to conditions in which painting flourished. The era produced Constable, Turner, Landseer, Rossetti, Millais, Burne-Jones, Leighton, Watts and Whistler, all living in the reign of Queen Victoria (except for Constable who died in the year of Victoria's accession). There were some 11,000 recognized artists, many mediocre, but a great number with high talents and artistic accomplishment. In religion: *The Oxford/Tractarian movement in the early part of Victoria's reign. *In 1865 William Booth began the Salvation Army in London. *The rise of theosophism and other occult interests in the 1890s. The Victorian period is now often regarded as one of many contradictions. It is easy for many to see a clash between the widespread cultivation of an outward appearance of dignity and restraint, and the widespread presence of many arguably deplorable phenomena. These include prostitution, child labour, and having an economics based largely on what many would now see as the exploitation of colony through imperialism and of the working classes. The expression ''Victorian values'' thus may be two-edged. The term ''Victorian'' has acquired a range of connotations, including that of a particularly strict set of Morality standards, often applied hypocritically. (See Victorian morality.) ==Related topics== *Victorian architecture *Victorian fashion *History of British society *Women in the Victorian era ==Sources and further reading== *Altick, Richard Daniel. ''Victorian People and Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian Literature''. W.W. Norton & Company: 1974. ISBN 039309376X. *Burton, Antoinette (editor). ''Politics and Empire in Victorian Britain: A Reader''. Palgrave Macmillan: 2001. ISBN 0312293356. *Flanders, Judith. ''Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England''. W.W. Norton & Company: 2004. ISBN 0393052095. *Mitchell, Sally. ''Daily Life in Victorian England''. Greenwood Press: 1996. ISBN 0313294674. * Wilson, A. N. ''The Victorians''. Arrow Books: 2002. ISBN 0099451867 ==External links and references== *[http://www.victorianweb.org/ The Victorian Web] *[http://www.victorianlondon.org/ The Victorian Dictionary] Victorian era zh-cn:维多利亚时代
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I'm not quite sure about the claim of Queen Victoria's naiivete in matters sexual, though of course it's likely she would have been so at first. There are, after all, the suggestions that in later life she carried on a discreet affair... User:-- April 08:45 Aug 12, 2002 (PDT) --- Why the distinction between books and novels? -User:Tubby :I don't think there is one; there's a distinction between those written by Dickens and Conan Doyle as one lump, and those by the Brontë sisters in another lump. Whether there's a purpose to that, I cannot say. --User:Brion VIBBER 23:32 Oct 22, 2002 (UTC) --- Why is the Franco-Prussian war mentioned in this context? One might just as well bring in ''any'' event of the later ninteenth century? The Crimean War? The Boer War? Both would be more relevant User:Djnjwd 01:17, 5 Sep 2003 (UTC) ---- What caused the prudishness of the era? User:Kingturtle 22:33, 18 Oct 2003 (UTC) ---- The last sentence of the article, comparing modern and Victorian values, is interesting. However, I'm not sure if it belongs in an encyclopedia. I have left this last sentence in, although I'm dubious about it, and I've taken out some of the less important (less ''characteristic'') items, in particular Jack the Ripper, as it seems to me from the discussion below that the consensus is not to have it. User:Djnjwd 23:33, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC) == Jack the Ripper == Jack the Ripper has been taken out of the article by 134.2.3.102 twice. Let's not get into an edit war, please. What are the reasons for linking the "Jack the Ripper" here, and what are the reasons not to do so? Let's discuss here and go with the consensus. -- User:Infrogmation 14:36, 19 May 2004 (UTC) :If interested only in Victorian era, one would expect Jack the Ripper. Do we need a separate article about "sociocultural phenomenon of the interest in a sex murderer, who by chance lived in the times" now "called victorian era"? What is your opinion, Carlos? -- User:199.217.251.218 21:31, 19 May 2004 (UTC) :: My asking was to try to understand why people were changing it back and forth and to avoid an edit war. Why does Jack the Ripper keep being added and keep being removed? I guess I mildly lean towards inclusion since he was famous in the era, but I'm willing to reconsider if someone can articlate reasons why this shouldn't be in the article. -- User:Infrogmation 14:07, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC) :::Giving the reasons once again (in more detail): :::(1)If interested only in the Victorian era, one would not expect Jack the Ripper, because the sociocultural phenomenon of the interest in a sex murderer is a sociocultural phenomenon of the present, or of the "modern times", if you like, but not of the Vicorian age in particular. :::(2) Jack the ripper, as one of many sex murderers who happened to live during the Victorian era, is by himself of no interest - the thing that interests about him is why and how he became the symbol he is today. Someone becoming a symbol and being referenced by popular culture is a sociocultural phenomenon (worthy to analyze, of course). But, as I said before, Jack the Ripper is not a sociocultural phenomenon of the Victorian era in particular (if he were, none of us would ever have heard his name). :::(3) The wikipedia page about the Victorian Age is supposed to give an outline of the era, that is, to mention the most important baselines. Now hypothetically: even if Jack the Ripper's fame were a phenomenon of the Victorian Age it is questionable whether his fame should be mentioned, as it produces a rather accidental impression to pick him out and leave others unmentioned. (Of course the latter affects the whole page - see the accidental range of writers mentioned.) :::(4) It should be most desirable that an historian specialized in the Victorian age attended to the page. Hey, historians out there..! ;-) -- User:134.2.18.33 14:03, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC) It's obvious that the IP address talking above has little to no information about what Jack the Ripper meant to the Victorians. The Ripper's fame was, in fact, a HUGE phenomena of the Victorian age. It's probably one of the items that got the most news coverage of the entire era. Here we have the seat of power for the world's greatest superpower and suddenly note only is a killer is mutilating woman on their doorstep, but the press jumps at the realization of the social and economic conditions of the slums that had such abject poverty in the midst of the most wealthy nation in the world. It was a huge phenomena, moreso to them than it is now. People today either sort of know of Jack as some old serial killer or a fictional character. People in the Victorian age knew Jack as the bogeyman that could show up anywhere and get anyone. He was a phantom who could not be caught, killing at will in an area that was densely populated and patrolled by police that covered every street on beats that crossed mossed areas every fifteen minutes. People across England and all the way to the US (at least as far out as Leadville, Colorado) amd down to Australia would work themselves into a hysteria that Jack was in their town. I don't for the life of me understand what 134 dot whatever means by "a rather accidental impression to pick him out and leave others unmentioned"... Leave other what unmentioned? Serial killers? There may as well not have ever been any others. News events? What got more coverage? Based upon this, I'm adding Jack back, based upon the idea that several people have argued in favor of his inclusion and only one unregistered person has argued against. -- User:DreamGuy Nov 14, 2004 == Copyright infringement == The three paragraphs commencing ''The period saw a huge amount of artistic production...'' appear to have been copied from [http://www.victorian-art.com/introduction.html]. I'm deleting them. Please restore them if you know that permission has been granted. User:Arcturus 17:57, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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