On May 24, 1819, a girl was born in Great Britain. The little girl was called Alexandrina Victoria, but people called her Victoria. Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, fourth son of the reigning King of the United Kingdom, King George III. Victoria's mother was Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After little Victoria's father and grandfather died in 1820, she was raised by her mother. On 20 June 1837, Victoria inherited the throne and became queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. When Victoria became queen, a new era began and was obviously named after the new queen, just as many other eras in Britain are named after kings or queens regnant. The Georgian era and the Regency era had ended and the Victorian age had begun. An era characterized by peace, prosperity, refined sensibility and self-reliance for Britain. An era in which great writers such as Charles Dickens, the Brontë sisters, Oscar Wilde and many others became famous. Some of them manage to publicize social problems, such as poverty or violations of people's rights. Others writing great novels and pushing more and more people to read books in their free time for fun. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Charles Dickens is one of the most famous Victorian novelists. He was born in Portsmouth, England, on February 7, 1812. Dickens did not receive much formal education, as he had to leave school and start working in a factory when his father went to prison. Despite this, Dickens wrote 15 novels, 5 novellas and many short stories and more. Some of his most famous works are Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol and Hard times. Dickens travelled... middle of paper... considered scandalous and immoral. Wilde then added a preface, as he called it, and six new chapters, and then people said it wasn't so immoral anymore. The story is based on the myths of Narcissus and Faust. A young, handsome and intelligent man wishes to remain eternally like this. He makes a deal with the devil and instead of the man aging, a portrait of him will age. And if he does something bad, he will only show it in the photo. At the end of the novel he gets tired and kills himself, but then the portrait returns to normal and the man's body shows how old he really is, and all his sins are also shown. The moral of the story is that if someone does something bad, but manages to hide it, then it will backfire on them. No one can escape his fate. In the story Wilde showed and used art because he was fascinated by it and wanted it to be more visible.