My favourite lecture is exploring the similarities between the Victorian era and our own. There are in fact so many similarities given the amount of new technology that the Victorians had to deal with. But the questions that arise from this topic are huge: Is the world becoming a better place (as the Victorians predicted)?…
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Victorianism and Charles Dickens
What a fabulous week to be able to jump in and explore all those amazing connections between the Victorian Age and Sydney our home city: The Queen Victoria Building, Victoria Road, Albert Road, The Palace Gardens… the list goes on. And it is important to stress that Sydney actually grew into a city exactly in…
Queen Victoria’s Railway Carriage and Charles Dickens’ Challenge!
This is where Queen Victoria sat in her carriage- a gold plated dunny, with decor matching the carriage as a whole: It is no wonder that Dickens and artists concerned with the “Condition of England” were disturbed at the discrepancy between such opulence and the conditions that 9/10ths of the English population had to endure…
Michael Griffith: Home Page- Literature and Life Spring 2025 
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