Exploring Victorian literature, we discover how authors like Charles Dickens, the Brontë Sisters and Lewis Carroll captured the ideals and issues of a rapidly industrializing society in 19th Century England. Victorian literature encompasses many different genres and is a melting pot of ideas, adventures, and memorable characters. It explores poverty, disease, inequality, societal shifts, and frictions, and it is thought-provoking, varied. and entertaining.  Cheaper printing and rising literacy made the novel popular in this period, and many of its books are revered today as classic works of fiction.