Liberalism in the Victorian era.
LIBERALISM. Victorian socialism or Victorian socialisms because it took so many different gradations, emerged in Britain along with other movements, such as new conservatism, new liberalism, new trade unionism, anarchism, social Darwinism, secularism, spiritualism, and theosophy. This age saw the birth and spread of political movements, most notably socialism, liberalism and organized feminism. Just as the emergence of classical liberalism in the early and mid-nineteenth century was closely linked to the emergence of industrial capitalism, so the development of the "New Liberalism" of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries derived from this further evolution of economy and society. In the mid-Victorian era, liberalism was a practical politics: it had a party, it informed legislation, and it had adherents who identified with and expressed it as opinion. It was also the first British political movement to depend more on people than property,