Links to information on Queen Victoria and her impact on the period she gave her name to, 1837-1901, though certainly the "Victorian" period started during the 1820s. 

Start with the Victorian Web: http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/victorian/vn/victor6.html

Victorian Web


Here you'll find the complete text of a post-Victorian view of Victoria, by Lytton Strachey, who had a somewhat dim view of his predecessors: http://sailor.gutenberg.org/etext98/qvctr10.txt

Lytton Strachey


Here you'll find a rather unexpected view of marriage and pregancy in a series of quotations from a book on Victoria: http://www.victoriana.com/doors/queenvictoria.htm

The book: DEAREST CHILD: LETTERS BETWEEN QUEEN VICTORIA AND THE PRINCESS ROYAL PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED,

Victoria's letters


     
Prince Albert
   
   

The rediscovery of Christmas celebrations: http://www.literary-liaisons.com/article016.html

Dickens' Christmas

See Dickens' "A Christmas Carol."


     

The Regency Period, preceding Victoria's reign: http://www.likesbooks.com/regent.html#1

Regency Period


     

Link to a page on Victoria's favorite poet, Tenneyson: http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/tennyson.htm

Tennyson


     
             
  Tennyson          

Good brief but full history: http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page118.asp

History


   

Has a number of useful links, especially on Victorian and women's issues:http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/victoriaqueen/

Women's Issues

 

   
       
                   
Victorian Research
               
The future King and Queen, Edward and Alexandra  
Victorian Technology
     
                   
The Pre-Raphaelites
Victorian Religion
Turner
     
Queen Victoria and family, 1895