Edmond Perrier's Victorian Museum

This black and white photograph represents Charles Dickens when he was 45 years old, in 1857. He wrote many books during the Victorian era. Victorian novels aimed to represent a large and comprehensive social world, with a variety of classes. Thus, in most of his books there are characters of different social classes. Victorian novels were realistic and were a major form of entertainment; therefore Dickens’ novels were appreciated. He denounced themes which preoccupied him like capitalism, child labor, because when he was young he was in a workhouse and it was an experience that he never forgot. He grew up in a modest family but he was a very clever man and an emblematic author of the Victorian era.

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