LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY (18TH 19TH) CENTURIES
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More magazines on the market
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The rise in serialized fiction
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Lower prices for magazines
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The passage of the Reform Bills
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first Reform Act disenfranchised 56 boroughs in England and Wales and reduced another 31 to only one MP. created 67 new constituencies. broadened the franchise’s property qualification in the counties, to include small landowners, tenant farmers, and shopkeepers.
Detailed explanation-2: -he three Reform Acts, of 1832, 1867, and 1884, all extended voting rights to previously disfranchised citizens.
Detailed explanation-3: -The 1867 Reform Act: granted the vote to all householders in the boroughs as well as lodgers who paid rent of £10 a year or more. reduced the property threshold in the counties and gave the vote to agricultural landowners and tenants with very small amounts of land.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1832, Parliament passed a law that changed the British electoral system. It was known as the Great Reform Act, which basically gave the vote to middle class men, leaving working men disappointed.