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The Victorians: Edexcel A‑Level English Literature questions

Every Edexcel A-Level English Literature exam question on The Victorians, 2016–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.

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  1. Q15

    June 2025 · Paper 3

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  3. Q15

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    June 2024 · Paper 3

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    June 2023 · Paper 3

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All 18 questions on The Victorians, as a list
  1. June 2025, Paper 3, Q15 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which the landscape is presented in Drummer Hodge by Thomas Hardy and one other poem. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual
  2. June 2025, Paper 3, Q16 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which poets portray powerful emotions in The Best Thing in the World by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and one other poem. You must relate your
  3. June 2024, Paper 3, Q15 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which poets present yearning in Maud: I.xi ‘O let the solid ground’ by Alfred Tennyson and one other poem. You must relate your discussion t
  4. June 2024, Paper 3, Q16 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which poets present the significance of journeys in Stanzas – [‘Often rebuked, yet always back returning’] by Charlotte Brontë (perhaps by E
  5. June 2023, Paper 3, Q15 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which poets present the role of women in From Sonnets from the Portuguese XXIV: ‘Let the world’s sharpness, like a closing knife’ by Elizabe
  6. June 2023, Paper 3, Q16 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which poets present the passage of time in ‘I Look into My Glass’ by Thomas Hardy and one other poem. You must relate your discussion to rel
  7. June 2022, Paper 3, Q15 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which grief is presented in From In Memoriam: VII ‘Dark house, by which once more I stand’ by Tennyson and in one other poem. You must relat
  8. June 2022, Paper 3, Q16 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which love is presented in Meeting at Night by Robert Browning and in one other poem. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual
  9. November 2021, Paper 3, Q15 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which longing is presented in Somewhere or Other by Christina Rossetti and in one other poem. You must relate your discussion to relevant co
  10. November 2021, Paper 3, Q16 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which the supernatural is presented in The Visionary by Emily Brontë and Charlotte Brontë and in one other poem. You must relate your discus
  11. October 2020, Paper 3, Q15 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which poets create narrative in A Wife in London by Thomas Hardy and in one other poem. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextu
  12. October 2020, Paper 3, Q16 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which seasons are presented in Home Thoughts from Abroad by Robert Browning and in one other poem. You must relate your discussion to releva
  13. June 2019, Paper 3, Q15 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which poets make use of the senses in From In Memoriam: XCV ‘By night we linger’d on the lawn’ by Tennyson and in one other poem. You must r
  14. June 2019, Paper 3, Q16 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which social conventions are presented in ‘Died...’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and in one other poem. You must relate your discussion to
  15. June 2018, Paper 3, Q15 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which night is presented in ‘The Autumn day its course has run–the Autumn evening falls’ by Charlotte Brontë and in one other poem. You must
  16. June 2018, Paper 3, Q16 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which memories are presented in from Maud: II.iv ‘O that ’twere possible’ by Tennyson and in one other poem. You must relate your discussion
  17. June 2017, Paper 3, Q15 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which the natural world is presented in The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy and in one other poem. You must relate your discussion to releva
  18. June 2017, Paper 3, Q16 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which intense feeling is presented in Grief by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and in one other poem. You must relate your discussion to relevant

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