Midterm #2 People

Queen Victoria

(1837-1901) ruler of Britain in the beginning of the time when British took over India, assigned the administration of Britain in the colony India

John Stuart Mill

English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)

Charles Dickens

English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870)

Emily Bronte

wrote Wuthering Heights

Charlotte Bronte

wrote Jane Eyre

Friedrich Engels

Another German communist who aided Marx in writing The Communist Manifesto; German social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of communist theory, alongside Karl Marx.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Wrote novels that showed smpathy for the working class (North and South)

Alfred Tennyson

-Poet Laureate of Great Britain & Ireland

-considered one of the six great Romantic poets

Arthur Hallam

whose death was the greatest sorrow of alfred, lord tennyson's life

Matthew Arnold

Wrote "Dover Beach"

Charles Darwin

English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882)

John Henry Newman

a leader of the Oxford Movement, converted to Catholicism, became a cardinal and influential writer

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Married to Robert Browning, was renowned for her poetry

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Pre-Raphaelite

Christina Rossetti

Goblin Market

Oscar Wilde

wrote The Importance of Being Earnest; Irish playwright, poet, and author of numerous short stories and one novel