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Pre-reading Activities: Charlotte Brontë Research

• Article: Charlotte Brontë
• Article: Charlotte Brontë Biography
• Website: The Brontë Society
• Article: Charlotte Brontë Fact File
• Article: Charlotte Brontë's Early Years

Volume I, Chapters XI–XV (11–15)

• Article: Jane Eyre and the 19th-century Woman

Volume II, Chapters I–V (16–20)

• Article: What is the Peerage?
• Article: Barons
• Article: The Peerage
• Article: The Baronetage
• Website: Wikimedia Commons

Volume II, Chapters VII–XI (22–26)

• Article: Gender Roles in the 19th Century

Volume III, Chapters I–V (27–31)

• Article: The Struggle for Democracy: Child Labour
• Article: Agricultural Gangs
• Article: The Rural Exodus
• Article: Education in England: A Brief History
• Article: Child Labor during the British Industrial Revolution

Whole-text Activities

• Article: What Servants Would You Find in a Victorian Household?
• Article: The Victorian Servant
• Document: 1871 Census Extract
• Article: Victorian Domestic Servant Hierarchy and Wage Scale
• Article: Domestic Servants
• Article: What Kind of Staff Would a Victorian Household Have?
• Article: The Servant Hierarchy
• Document: Servants at Wincobank Hall, Sheffield (1817 to c 1840)
• Article: Servants
• Article: A Warm Fireside in Winter
• Article: Tallow Candles and Snuffers
• Article: Tallow
• Article: Rushlights - Usage and Production
• Article: Rushlight: How the Country Poor Lit Their Homes (1904)
• Article: Rushlight - History, Preparation, Quality and References
• Article: Beeswax
• Article: Beeswax Trivia
• Article: Horn Lantern
• Article: Lanterns and Lamp Horns

Some Sites with More Information on Nineteenth-century Lighting

• Website: Examples of Antique Oil Lamps [link no longer working]
• Article: 19th Century Paris: 'Gaz à tous les étages'
• Document: A History of Street Lighting in the Old and New Towns of Edinburgh
• Article: A Chronology of the Wax Chandlers History
• Article: Lighting in the Victorian Home
• Article: History of Candles (National Candle Association)
• Article: History of Candles (European Candle Association)
• Article: The Chemistry of a Candle
• Article: Candles
• Article: History of Candle Making