We will also look at the lives of the workers. This image is the jacket of one of the books I read during the holidays. The cover design is based on an early trade union membership certificate for cotton spinners. During Victoria’s reign the Industrial Revolution came to its peak in Britain and the cotton industry was the source of new fortunes for factory owners and a harsh new world for the workers. In his novel Hard Times, published in 1854. Dickens examined the harshness of education and industry.
.
1837 was a momentous year for three important Victorians. Victoria became Queen, Benjamin Disraeli (a future Prime Minister) entered parliament and Charles Dickens became a celebrity when Pickwick Papers was published.