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Specification Information

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Pre-reading Activities

Task 2: Predict Further reading:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Ibsen
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Doll%27s_House
• http://www.mnc.net/norway/Ibsen.htm
• http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/henrik_ibsen.html
• http://www.notable-quotes.com/i/ibsen_henrik.html

Task 4: Victorian Women Further reading:

• http://www.victoriaspast.com/LifeofVictorianWoman/LifeofVictorianWoman.html
• http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/collins/tsw1.html
• http://victoriancontexts.pbworks.com/w/page/12407471/The%20Law%20of%20Divorce

Task 9: Men and Women and... Further reading: A Doll's House - Full text

Act 1

Tasks Further reading:

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/darwin_charles.shtml
• http://www.artandpopularculture.com/Degeneration_(Max_Nordau)_full_text
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9n%C3%A9dict_Morel
• http://hpy.sagepub.com/content/3/12/391.extract

Did you know? Guardian articles:

• http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/apr/03/living-alone-depression
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/mar/30/the-rise-of-solo-living

Further reading:

• http://history1800s.about.com/od/entertainmentsport/a/christmas19thc.htm
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jan/28/divorce-rates-marriage-ons

Act 2

Context: http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/6/1/44.extract

Did you know?

• http://danswenson.com/paper/katrinagraphics/04Kat-house-marks.jpg
• http://kannada.changathi.com/

Further reading:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_syphilis
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphilis#Secondary
• https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4099/4099-h/4099-h.htm#page183

Act 3

Interactive tasks: http://www.angryalien.com/

Further reading:

• https://theberkshireedge.com/connections-50/
• https://www.thoughtco.com/feme-sole-3529190

Did you know? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2013466/Is-Chicagos-Fairy-Castle-expensive-dolls-house-world.html

Characterisation

Who is Nora? Task 3: Laura Kieler and Ultima Thule: https://archive.org/details/lettershenrikib00laurgoog/

Character Relationships

The Women

• Task 5: As Lowly as a Wife Can be: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4099/4099-h/4099-h.htm#p. 183
• Task 6: She is Worth Far More Than Rubies: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2031&version=NIV

Attitudes and Values

Class Task 3: Glad Ur Not... Poor and Destitute: https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/50139/explore_and_discover/1609/life_for_children_in_victorian_britain/2

Morality Task 2: No Disney+ for the Helmers:

• https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/50168/creepy_collection/1624/creepy_collection_-_girl_who_would_not_brush_her_hair
• https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44996/goblin-market

Form

Task 4: Read Around

• http://www.online-literature.com/periods/realism.php
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melodrama
• http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/spd130et/melodrama.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteenth-century_theatre
• http://www.victorianweb.org/genre/Realism.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_literature
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548ks