Lord Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), English poet often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry. Tennyson succeeded Wordsworth as Poet Laureate in 1850. Alfred, Lord Tennyson was born on August 5, 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire. His father, George Clayton Tennyson, a clergyman and rector, suffered from depression and was notoriously absentminded. Alfred began to write poetry at an early age in the style of Lord Byron. After spending four unhappy years in school he was tutored at home. Tennyson then studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he joined the literary club 'The Apostles'. Tennyson died at Aldwort on October 6, 1892 and was buried in the Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.

"The Lady of Shalott" is a Victorian ballad by the English poet Alfred Tennyson.

The Lady of Shalott (painting)

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832.  She and her three sisters, Anna, Elizabeth, and May, were educated by their father, philosopher/ teacher Bronson Alcott, and raised on the practical Christianity of their mother, Abigail May. For Louisa, writing was an early passion.  She had a rich imagination and often her stories became melodramas that she and her sisters would act out for friends.  Louisa’s career as an author began with poetry and short stories that appeared in popular magazines.  In 1854, when she was 22, her first book Flower Fables was published. 

When Louisa was 35 years old, her publisher in Boston, Thomas Niles, asked her to write "a book for girls."  Little Women was written at Orchard House from May to July 1868.  The novel is based on Louisa and her sisters’ coming of age and is set in Civil War New England.  "Jo March" was the first American juvenile heroine to act from her own individuality --a living, breathing person rather than the idealized stereotype then prevalent in children’s fiction.

In all, Louisa published over 30 books and collections of stories.  She died on March 6, 1888, only two days after her father, and is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord.

Pães

Para se referir ao tradicional pãozinho francês diga roll, já no caso do pão de hambúrguer, redondo, a palavra correspondente em inglês é bun.

Veja no quadro abaixo alguns tipos de pão:

Pão de alho - Garlic bread

Pão de centeio - Rye bread

Pão de forma - Sliced loaf

Pão de queijo - Cheese bread

Pão integral - Wholemeal bread/Wholewheat bread

Pão sírio - Pita bread

Pão com gergelim - Sesame seed bread

Era Vitoriana

A Era Vitoriana foi o período no qual a Rainha Vitória reinou sobre a Inglaterra, no século XIX, durante 63 anos, de junho de 1837 a janeiro de 1901. Ela subiu ao trono quando seu tio Guilherme VI morreu sem deixar herdeiros. Ela  foi coroada ainda muito jovem, aos 18 anos. Durante esse longo período, a Inglaterra atingiu o apogeu de sua política industrial e colonialista. Tornou-se a grande oficina do mundo, abastecendo os mercados mundiais com seus produtos industrializados.  O reinado da rainha Vitória foi marcado pela prosperidade industrial da burguesia inglesa.

Na literatura destacaram-se a prosa de George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, das Irmãs Brontë, de Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson, entre outros; e a poesia de Tennyson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Swimburne, W. B. Yeats, Robert Browning, entre outros.

Abaixo encontra-se uma lista de algumas obras de autores que marcaram a literatura Vitoriana:

“Alice no País das Maravilhas” - Lewis Carroll

“O Morro dos Ventos Uivantes” - Emily Brontë

“O Marido Ideal” - Oscar Wilde

“Orgulho e Preconceito” - Jane Austen


-> Existe um filme onde é mostrada a vida da Rainha Vitória quando jovem, a atriz que interpreta a Rainha neste filme é a Inglesa Emily Blunt.

The Young Victoria ;)