DDs teacher giving serious misinformation WWYD?

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How to deal with this please......

DD has recently got a new English teacher. They are reading Pride & Prejudice (just started). Today in the lesson, the teacher has on several occasions referred to it being set in "the Victorian era"
that's a massive error to make, right? how do we point this out? DD was like when she told me, but there will be other kids who believe the teacher and for whom that will stick.
DD did not want to correct the teacher for fear of being reprimanded/thought rude.
WWYD?

Oh FFS! Even DH knows it's Georgian and he's allergic to history. That is pretty poor show for the teacher. Has she even read the book?

the "long nineteenth century" (from 1789 to 1914)

Ah, Hobsbawm.

I would definitely have to say something. In fact, knowing me, I'd have probably said something in the class, but I was that sort of child, probably incredibly annoying. Probably still am

I don't get this fear of querying something like this. I can understand a child being reluctant to say something to a new teacher but why would the parents pussyfoot around? You are adults, the teachers are adults, they are not the boss of you. Can't you just send a casual email to say "Was discussing P&P with dd earlier and she seemed to be under the impression that it is set in the victorian era which didn't seem right to me. We looked it up and found this . Hope you don't mind me pointing it out. Regards..."

Personally, yes I would call it a Victorian book, all be it very early Victorian. That would be correct
um no it would not be correct at all, it would be quite wrong in fact.

being a total chicken shit,

I would open a new email account and e-mail anonymously

Of course, the only true 'long century' is the eighteenth, which begins in 1642 and ends in 1832.

Nice try, RP, nice try.

RevoltingPeasant I like your style.

But rteally, we need to be talking about Christian and post-Christian. The break being around about 1859.

How dare you?!

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Oh, ok, I admit, I have no idea why 'Christian' and 'post-Christian' happens in 1859.

My daughter had the identical issue with 2 consecutive English teachers. She pointed it out both times.
I let her fight that battle but had to write in when an entire class was taken up on Carole Anne Duffy's Salome without the teacher mentioning anything to the class about its connection with the story of John the Baptist.
When asked who Othello was he said 'the Moor' but didn't explain what that meant and then told them that Kenneth Branagh was playing Othello in the movie they were watching in class (er, no!) .
You would think an English literature graduate would do better but it seems to be sadly common.

Carol Ann Duffy, you mean?

I'll be interested to hear what happens next with this.

I think the problems arises when idiots people think that the Victorian period and the nineteenth century are synonymous.

Undergraduate history students are swines for it. I wouldn't be surprised if this teacher has fallen into this trap.

YY.

Personally, yes I would call it a Victorian book, all be it very early Victorian. That would be correct.

I am all for healthy debate and listening to leftfield opinions, but signet you are just plain fucking wrong.

It isn't a Victorian book any more than it is a work of science fiction.

By signets reasoning the Napoleonic Wars were Victorian!!

I'd have said JA was a late Georgian writer.

Maybe she learned history from Friends.

Days of Yore, Yesteryear and Colonial Times ??

I have no idea why 'Christian' and 'post-Christian' happens in 1859.

I don't know for sure, but Darwin's On the Origin of Species was published 1859, so I would assume it's something to do with that.

Thank you.

And it's 'albeit', not 'all be it' (I fully realise you're quoting, Compos ).

Catsmamma

If we have the long nineteenth century (French revolution to outbreak of first world war) and the short twentieth (First world war to end of the cold war) are we due an average length twenty first century?

I think, given US-centric history, the twenty-first might start with September 11th? Not sure how I feel about that but fairly sure it would get suggested.