ENGL 20323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lytton Strachey, Corporation Act 1661, Eminent Victorians
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The term meant for the victorians themselves: earnest, responsible, and modern . It meant for the ensuing modernists: pompous, hypocritical and overstuffed: lytton strachey, eminent victorians (1918); virginia woolf, orlando (1928) It often means today, colloquially: garish or overstuffed (as in interior decors), or prudish in terms of sexuality. 1850 wordsworth dies and alfred, lord tennyson becomes poet laureate. 1859 charles darwin"s origin of species is published. 1828 repeal of the test and corporation acts, allowing non-conformist (dissenting) 1829 catholic emancipation allows catholics to hold public office. 1832 reform bill (also great reform bill; first reform bill). Admits upper middle- class males to the vote. 1867 second reform bill, admits most working males to the vote. 1870 married women"s property act begins allowing women to own property in their own name; a later act, in 1882, further expanded those rights. 1871 repeal of university test act, allowing non-anglicans to enter oxford and.
