The Victorian Age brought about great changes in all areas of everyday living. There were great political, economical, religious, and social changes which influenced the attitudes and values of the emerging society along with many writers of that time. Countries were rapidly changing from an agricultural to an industrial society. Life during this time was moving at a much faster pace. Although many thought, including Bathd, "of the Victorian Age as a smug complacency, of …showed first 75 words of 1872 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1872 total…say it was a time of many unsettling social developments. A time the middle class drew forward and became the dominant class. Others say it was a time in which science upheld and took over the minds and body of many writers and citizens. But is all of this for certain? Who knows? All we can say for certain is that it was a time of great politically, socially, economically, and most certain religious change.