UVU Victorian Literature (Fall 2019) Dashboard
Description
This group is a collaborative effort of the members of Utah Valley University's, Fall 2019 "Victorian Literature" class. As a class, we will be exploring the material culture of the Victorian Era. Each class member will be responsible for identifying an object of interest in one of our course texts. After identifying their chosen object, they will research its history, pursuing how this object was produced, advertised, traded, used, and discarded during the nineteenth century. Following their research, each member will contribute posts to the class gallery, timeline, and map (as appropriate per object). Once they've contributed to the class's digital archive, members will present their findings to the class and write a short reflection on how their findings enrich their reading of the text in which they discovered their object. By tracing the material history of an individual object, each member will gain a deeper appreciation for nineteenth-century material culture and its relationship to the Victorian literary imagination.
Galleries, Timelines, and Maps
Individual Entries
St. James's Palace has been the setting for some of the most important events in Royal history, having been a residence of Kings and Queens of England for over 300 years until the reign of Queen Victoria. (https://www.royal.uk/royal-residences-st-jamess-palace)
Many Royal weddings have taken place in the Chapel, including that of Queen Victoria to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg on 10 February 1840. Their eldest daughter, Victoria, Princess Royal, was also married there in 1858 to Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia, later the German Emperor Friedrich III. (https://www.royal.uk/chapelroyal)
This is where Charlotte Bronte went to school. Cowan Bridge inspired her vision of Lowood school. My guess is that Bronte wore something very similar to what Jane Eyre had to.
Holland Cloth is what Jane Eyre's pinafore is made of. Holland is a cheap material and another signifier of class. Lowerclass youth wear pinafores made out of fabric like holland, higherclass children wear pinafores made out of nicer fabrics. Here is a short article on Holland fabric.
Holland, plainwoven unbleached or dull-finish linen used as furniture covering or a cotton fabric that is made more or less opaque by a glazed or unglazed finish (called the Holland finish), consisting of oil and a filling material. Originally the name was applied to any fine, plainwoven linens imported from the continent of Europe, and especially to the product obtained from the Netherlands.
Holland is used for window shades, insulation, labels and tags, sign cloth, and the like. In Greece a number of coloured cotton fabrics are also known as hollands.
Shows the cost of a coach (Again Dickens Public Transportation in his novels)
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/reviews/grossman.html