id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-771 Victorian literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 3303 317 62 English writing from this era reflects the major transformation in most aspects of English life, such as significant scientific, economic, and technological advances to changes in class structures and the role of religion in society.[1] While the Romantic period was a time of abstract expression and inward focus, essayists, poets, and novelists during the Victorian era began to reflect and comment on realities of the day, including criticisms of the dangers of factory work, the plight of the lower class, and the treatment of women and children.[2] Prominent examples include poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and novelists Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy. As children began to be able to read, literature for young people became a growth industry, with not only established writers producing works for children (such as Dickens' A Child's History of England) but also a new group of dedicated children's authors. The Victorian Novel (Oxford History of English Literature, 1991) ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-771.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-771.txt