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The article presents an examination of the popularity of colonial autobiographies and testimonies in England during the middle of the 19th century. It focuses on works written by middle-class female emigrants who conveyed the realities of pioneer life in British North America to members of their social class in Great Britain. The author explores the autobiography "Roughing it in the Bush," by Susanna Moodie and discusses how the book promotes life in the New World as one that offers a spiritual and religious quest for a better life to families experiencing social and financial problems in Great Britain.

Examines the structure and content of Victorian literature courses at undergraduate level in British universities and polytechnics. Anthologies, texts, and selections with which most students are likely to come into contact; Various approaches to the field in relation to what is taught and how; Major novelists, poets, and prose writers whose works are included in a basic course in Victorian literature.

Examines the Victorian culture and politics in Great Britain. Insensitivity of the English masses to the merits of high culture in the late twentieth century; Absence of anthropological relativism in the liberal cultural politics of the Victorian period; Propagation of the liberal political culture by reformers with ambivalent goals.