Show Notes

In the season five premiere, Courtney and Eleanor discuss some of the major historical events, writers, and genres that shaped the beginning of the Victorian period.

Transcript here.

Resources for this episode included:

• Sally Mitchell’s Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia
• Richard Altick’s Victorian People and Ideas
• Timeline of Victorian Legislation on Victorian Web
• Pickwick Papers and the Development of Serial Fiction on Victorian Web
• Cliffhangers on Victorian Web
• Stats from At the Circulating Library
• Eleanor’s entry on Factory Acts

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