Question

Why is the victorian age called as age of fiction?

Answer 1

The reign of Queen Victoria is also called “the age of Fiction” because fiction became the most important form of entertainment of the middle classes.

Answer 2

The Victorian Age, more formally known, was a time of great prosperity in Great Britain's literature. The Victorian Age produced a variety of changes. Political and social reform produced a variety of reading among all classes. The lower-class became more self-conscious, the middle class more powerful and the rich became more vulnerable. The novels of Charles Dickens, the poems of Alfred
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