The Victorian Era Was A Time Of Extremes. There Was Fancy

The world today consists of children roaming the streets, technology taking over the world, and being able to work wherever you'd like but, could you imagine a life without all these things? Believe it or not there was a time in life where these things were very uncommon to see. This would be known as the victorian era. This time period was between 1837 and 1901. Daily life was very different from now. Health, social classes, and fashion are just three examples of how daily life was different in the victorian era.

The Victorian Era was a time of peace and prosperity. During the Victorian Era the society was divided into various social classes like the working class, middle class. Upper class, Dickens/Victorians. Above all those classes the middle class was the most hard working class with all the various occupations but also they also had quite relaxing life also speaking of which let's get into the middle class.

The problem with the enforcement of the act was that police could arrest and inspect any woman that they suspected of prostitution, whether they were a prostitute or not. Ordinary women were sometimes suspected to degrading inspects by authorities and were humiliated and falsely held. The act were protested by various women’s groups that claimed that the act was attempting to control women’s bodies and that the government should go after the prostitute’s clientele rather than the prostitute. Prostitution was viewed by many of England’s religious and moral as an evil in society. “By 1850 prostitution had become ‘the Great Social Evil,’ not simply an affront to morality, but a vital aspect of the social economy as well.”

Hailed as the savior of the “fallen women” and a feminist of her time, Josephine Butler stands as a prominent figure in Britain’s history. Because of her fight for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts (CDAs) of 1864, 1866, and 1869, a number of historians refer to her as a feminist, while others contend that the term is too far-reaching and ignores her religious motivations. According to historians like Helen Mathers or Jane Jordan, Butler was “a true ‘Victorian feminist’”. determined to fight for women’s rights. Her religious motivation, to them, does not detract from Butler’s ultimate goal of improving the lives of women.

Victorian Era England Lifestyles were quite diverse depending on where you lived and how much money you had. The rich were well off while the poor were complete opposites. Although the rich had great lives, I would not wish to live in that time period.

While there were many advancements in technology and literature in the Victorian Era, there were also many disadvantages; these included child labor, class disparities, and atrocious living conditions. There were incredible novels, artwork, and machinery created during the Victorian Era. However, the people were treated horribly. Children were put to work, and severely abused while they were there. The poor were seen as dirt on the bottom of the upper class’s shoes, and were rarely allowed to advance in society. Citizens lived in squalor, and many became ill because of it. Victorian society will always have a negative connotation because of how the people were treated during that time. Dickens is a major proponent of that connotation. He wrote

In 1864, a medical officer found that at any given time, one in three cases of sickness within the British army was caused by a sexually transmitted disease, likely contracted from prostitutes. This led to the enactment of the euphemistic ‘Contagious Disease Act’ which allowed any woman perceived by police to be a prostitute, within a ten-mile radius of a garrison town, to be forcibly detained and examined for evidence of a venereal disease. If such a woman were found guilty; she could be locked in hospital for up to a year to receive compulsory vaginal examinations as well as lessons in morality because she was considered a ‘fallen’ woman. This approach would be sexist and cruel if enacted today but at the time it seemed to be the clearest and least jarring method of managing sexually transmitted diseases, by sterilising the environment in which they fester. Sexually transmitted diseases were such an important public health issue for Britain that

The Victorian era refers to the sixty-three-year reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain, from 1837-1901. From a huge population boom in Great Britain to technological improvements that changed the way people lived, to the increasingly noticeable differences between the wealthy and the working poor, the 19th Century saw more profound social and political developments than any century before.

In chapter three of Westward Bound, “The Most Public of Private Women: Prostitutes, Reforms, and Police Courts”, many topics and people were discussed. These included: prostitution, the Thomas Street Brothels, Madeleine Blair, Alexandre Jean-Baptiste Parent-Duchatelet, England’s Contagious Disease Acts, Josephine Butler, and the WCTU. January 7, 1904 in Winnipeg was the Thomas street Brothels. Roughly three thousand men swarmed to this location on James Street in order to watch police and authorities bring in twelve madams and seventy two prostitutions to the station. The men must have found this interesting to watch and wanted to say they were present for this event.

This is when diseases were passes around due to the increase in prostitution and the increase of one woman’s involvement. The Government of England attempted to regulate and reduce the spread of diseases. Women were subjected to checkups if they were under the suspicion of sustaining a sexually transmitted disease. The women would have to go through a thorough check up which was free of cost if it was under the government’s suspicion. If the patient had contracted a sexually transmitted disease, they would be sent to a lock hospital. A lock hospital was designed to treat venereal diseases, however the hygienic conditions of the hospital were not any better than the Magdalene Asylums. Magdalene Asylums were made for the rehabilitation of prostitutes back into society. Prostitution In Victorian England claims that the government of England was the primary supporter of the reform of prostitution. Prostitution was intensely popular throughout the country, and the only way to put a halt to the, at the time, legal activity was to support the idea of making it illegal, stated A Necessary Evil? Attitudes towards prostitution in Victorian London. This article supports the idea of illegalizing this legal form of adultery. It came to a point where women were dependent on prostitution in order to survive. Although their income might not be steady, their rates would be high, so only one of their customers could support their day of

In the letter to The Times on 24 February 1858, the woman signed her name as “Another Unfortunate”, implying the fact that she had conformed herself to the moral standard. Even though prostitution had brought many privileges to her life, she accepted herself as an unfortunate because the society had imposed so. She further expressed her anger mixed with desperation, “Now, what if I am a prostitute, what business has society to abuse me?...What we have to be ashamed of we who do not know what shame is - the shame you mean? … Why stand you there mouthing with sleek face about morality? What is morality?” Women’s social vulnerability was conveyed through these questions. They did not know the reason their survival choice had turned into a social wickedness. For example, William Acton had already declared the moral standard that prostitution was evil before expanding on his reasons and studies. The deductive reasoning method had taken away the chance for women to argue about the meaning of morality concerning prostitution. In fact, Josephine Butler, a middle class woman, wrote a paper with the title “The Double Standard of Morality” during the late 19th century. Butler pointed out how men were not viewed as sinful for they were fulfilling their desire through prostitution. A man could become a good husband when time passed by but a prostitute would always remain with impurity. She further emphasized that, “Even those men who are personally pure and blameless become persuaded by the force of familiarity with male profligacy around them, that this sin in man is venial and excusable. They interpret the ignorance and silence of women as indulgent acquiescence and support” (1). The moral standard had already been placed, in which women were powerless to change. Thus, the women’s silent endurance became an acquiescence to the morality issue that men had

Lindsay Safriet Mr. Blackburn English IV 20 Nov 2015 Victorian Era Sexism: Annotated Bibliography "Historical Analysis: Women as the "the Sex" During the Victorian Era. "Historical Analysis: Women as the "the Sex" During the Victorian Era. Web. 19 Nov. 2015.

The Victorian Era consists of three groups of the upper, middle, and lower class that differ in what and how they ate. The upper class had more etiquette and availability in what they ate compared to what the other classes had. The middle class were able to eat with what they made or bought, but not as much as the upper class had. The lower class had only a limited choice of what they ate. Although divided by separate groups, all classes had the same format of what to eat depending on time; starting with breakfast, then lunch, and lastly dinner.

Josephine Butler was born on the 13th of April in 1828 in Milfield Hill Northumberland, and she was the seventh child of John Grey and his wife, Hannah Annett. Born during the Victorian era, she was a revolutionary activist and a leader of a National Women’s Political campaign. Inspired by her father, who was a leading liberal and agricultural reform in the English border country, Josephine became aware of the terror of slavery and mistreatment of women, which sparked her care for the imprisoned and ill prostitutes. During the time, women were not allowed to vote, but Josephine managed to repeal the Contagious Disease Act, which was an act strongly supported by the public. This act was passed as a rationale to protect military men from getting sexually transmitted diseases from prostitutions, but allowed the latter to be sexually assaulted by police officers as they checked them for venereal disease. By repealing the act, Josephine Butler highlighted the great injustice that prostitutions faced. Moreover, she also campaigned for higher education for women, and sought equal suffrages. Nevertheless, she never became the national heroine of her time as compared to Florence Nightingale, and her accomplishments were much undermined. This essay narrates the exciting and complex journey of Josephine Butler, the influences she received throughout her life, as she struggled through her campaign that made her the historical heroine of today.

great prosperity in Great Britain's literature. The Victorian Age produced a variety of changes. Political and social reform produced a variety of reading among all classes. The lower-class became more self-conscious, the middle class more powerful and the rich became more vulnerable. The novels of Charles Dickens, the poems of Alfred,