Victorian Era: The Novel

The novel was huge during this time period. They often appeared in three volumes as opposed to simply one book, which explains why some classic literature is separated even today within one book as different "Books". This books were an attempt to cover a large amount of life and society as it really was. Each novel showed each author's own views of what life and their world was about in this time in very realistic fashions, though they might not all seem to show the same world in their individual realism. Victorian novels showed a main character who was trying to define their position within society. This was also an era of many strong women writers, considering the common topics of the novel were of daily life, society, courtship, family, and marriage.

It's interesting the reading speaks of the Victorian heroine, the representation of the human condition. While this is a model of women very familiar to me, from my experience these novel were still not without their Byronic males. Of course, they weren't quite as romantic as in the previous era of Bryon himself perhaps.