The Victorians Story Maker

The Victorians Story Maker

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Victorians
Queen Victoria’s reign was an age of inventions and inequality, railways and rat pits, soldiers and suffragettes, Christmas trees and criminals… you get the picture. Let’s write a Victorian epic.
Download the pdf Storymaker: URL here
⊕ Go through the steps below to create your story…

1. Choose two Victorian locations:

The workhouse was a place where people too sick or poor to support themselves went to work (in return for food and a place to sleep). A ‘baby farm’ was a place where unmarried mothers send their babies – so they could go out and work.

  • Dark alley
  • Music hall
  • Gentleman’s club
  • Whitechapel High Street
  • Graveyard
  • Fleet Street
  • Match factory
  • Rat pit
  • The workhouse
  • The baby farm
  • Hospital


2. Choose two characters to be in the story:

The first three names – Sherlock, Jack, and Sweeny – are fictional characters.

  • Jack the Ripper
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • Sweeny Todd (the demon barber)
  • Florence Nightingale
  • Amelia Dyer (the baby farmer)
  • A gambler
  • The ‘peelers’ (policemen)
  • A landlord
  • An actress
  • A criminal
  • A rat catcher
  • A match girl (factory worker)


3. Choose two objects for your story…

  • Razor
  • Secret letter
  • Gunkosh
  • Poison (arsenic)
  • Bottle of medicine
  • Gold sovereigns


4. Write the story from the most exciting part.

The first line could be a line of dialogue.