Victorian Mothers and Children at Home

Victorian writers and photographers rethink “home” as a creative space for imagination, game play, childhood development, and business.

Victorian Children’s Literature Syllabus

Syllabus for Remote Instruction & Assignment Guidelines

Student Projects

Science experiments, creative writing, and tea parties: fun, at-home activities created by Dartmouth Students for school-age students based on children’s literary texts.

Sui Sin Far and Transnational Mothers and Children at Home

 Projects created by Presidential Research Scholar Emily Sun, Dartmouth ’23. 

Secret Garden Escape Room

 An interactive, web-based “Escape Room” created by a Dartmouth student. 

Women Writers and Serial Domesticity

Lesson plan on Gaskell’s Lizzie Leigh

Student-authored Novella, "Self-Checkout"

Written in the course “Netflix and the Victorian Serial Novel.”

Christie Harner

Professor

Christie Harner teaches Victorian literature and culture at Dartmouth College, including courses on Darwinism and animal studies, children’s literature, narrative theory, and photography. Her scholarship bridges literature, science, and the visual arts and addresses the social impact of the humanities within and across public communities.

All photographs by Lady Clementina Hawarden, 1859-64, England.

© Victoria and Albert Museum, London.