Barretts of Wimpole St

Brigidine College Library

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Year 10 English

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Search Terms:

Search under the following specific headings which relate to prominent people in the library’s Internet Inquiry catalogue. It contains an excellent choice of books and websites available on this topic.

Great Britain – History – 19^th century	Victoria, Queen of Great Britain
Great Britain – Social life and customs – 19^th century	Great Britain – Social conditions – 19^th century
Browning, Robert	Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Online Databases:

Go to the Library’s Online Databases: Biography page.

Go to these sites from the Library’s Subscription Databases page:

Try BCC pathway to Britannica Online. (Click on ‘Encyclopedias’).

Electric Library (Brigidine passwords required)

Try BCC pathway to Electric Library if the Brigidine subscription is being used (Click on ‘Magazines and Newspapers Online’).

Recommended Web Search Tools:

Go to Brigidine’s Recommended Web Search Tools page and use

Search Engines (like Google. Try other search engines too eg Alta Vista)

Subject Directories (like Yahoo, Lycos and others. Subject Directories are written by experts, not picked up by computers using certain keywords, so the information there is more likely to be reputable and authoritative).

Internet Sites:

Victorian England in General

1876 Victorian England Revisited

http://www.logicmgmt.com/1876/splash.htm

The Victorians: A Resource for Schools

http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/vicintro.htm

Virtual Victorians: Resources for Schools

http://www.victorians.org.uk/

The Victorian Period in England

http://www.britainexpress.com/History/Victorian_index.htm

The 1900 House

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/1900house/

The Victorian Emporium

http://www.thevictorianemporium.net/

(Sections include: Etiquette ; Rituals ; Wedding Customs ; The Tea Room ; Entering Society ; Toilet Recipes ; Entertaining ; Glossary ; Parlour Games ; Women in History ; Acquaintances ; A Personal Touch).

Victorian Lace: Victorian Lifestyles

http://www.geocities.com/victorianlace10/home.html

The Victorian Web: an Overview

http://65.107.211.206/victorian/index.html

The Victorian Era

http://www.deltacom-design.co.uk/victoriana_historical.htm

History in Focus: Victorian page

http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Victorians/

Victorian Web

http://www.victorianweb.org/

When Were Victorian Times?

http://www.internetartfair.com/articles/victoria.shtml

The Victorian Dictionary: A Guide to the Social History of Victorian London

http://www.victorianlondon.org/

Role of Women

Courtship - A Touch of Victoriana
http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/conway/286/courting.html

(Rules for courtship and marriage in the Victorian era).

Book Review: An Oral History of Working Class Women 1890-1940

http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Victorians/sally.html

(Although about working class women, much of the discussion is relevant).

Women and Property

http://www.umd.umich.edu/casl/hum/eng/classes/434/geweb/WOMENAND.htm

(Though this concentrates on Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, it does give a clear picture of women’s legal and financial status in Victorian England).

Property Rights of Women in 19^th century England

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

(The property rights of women during most of the nineteenth century were dependent upon their marital status).

The Emancipation of Women

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/women.htm

(Scroll right down the page to ‘Women in the 19^th Century’, where there are documents on Schooling, University Education, Marriage, Birth Control and Industrial Work).

Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning

http://www.cswnet.com/~erin/browning.htm

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=153

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Women’s Issues and ‘Aurora Leigh’

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/ebb/al3.html

Spectrum Biographies: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

http://www.incwell.com/Biographies/BrowningEB.html

Robert Browning

http://faculty.stcc.cc.tn.us/bmcclure/lessons2/browning.htm

Robert Browning