Glossary
The glossary includes essential terms related to the person, life, and work of Chesterton. For reasons of space it must inevitably be incomplete. It includes the most important people – family, friends, contemporaries and adversaries -, the most significant places – streets, neighborhoods, buildings, literary, cultural and religious associations – and the most important public activities – conferences, debates, meetings, congresses , election campaigns and travel.
There are currently 3 terms in this directory beginning with the letter V.
Vale of the White Horse, The
This Oxfordshire valley inspired Chesterton’s epic poem The Ballad of the White Horse (1911), about king Alfred the Great.
Victorian Age
Period of British history coinciding with the reign of Victoria of the United Kingdom, from June 1837 to 22 January 1901, date of her death; characterized by an economic prosperity brought about by huge industrialisation (Industrial Revolution) and colonialism; Victoria’s reign was the longest in British history (source: Wikipedia); this period will define the UK’s cultural and social parameters amidst the new world born of the Industrial Revolution; modernity and tradition will combine in a unique cultural and economic alliance, full of contradictions but in harmony with a society that promotes and lives through the dramatic transformations of the industrial era.