The Victorian Life: Life During The Victorian Era

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 Age in England was a time when crime was rampant, people were starving, and life was generally difficult. In these times, there were really only two social classes, the upper class, and the lower class. Everyone in the lower class had troubles, but children had it the hardest. While most everyone had a difficult life, it was worst for children; forcing them towards crime and leading them into the arms of prison.

The Victorian Era was a time of wide extremes. elegant city streets, gas lamps, and in contrast grinding poverty. It was also a time of exploration and invention. With their pioneer spirit wild frontier towns were born across the world. and with their flare and ingenuity the Victorians took with them their values and elegance. (Matthew Arnold) Though Victorian period was influenced by the reform act 1832 and subsequent acts, yet this period also marked by extreme diversities with the industrial reforms, cultural progress, scientific advancement on one hand and poverty and wars on the other.

The Victorian Era was a great time of prosperity for England, but not for everyone. During this time period in England, the lower classed suffered. The Industrial Revolution had many positive effect for society in general, but caused the lower class to suffer. Men’s wages declined, as a result women and children had to work to help support their families.

The Victorian Era was a 68 year ruling period by the infamous Queen Victoria. Her reign ensured tremendous cultural expansion; improvement in trade, science and technology, and the invention of railroads in London. The Victorian Era also had a very strict class system consisting of Upper, Middle, Working, and Lower Class. During Victoria’s reign in the nineteenth century, England thrived, yet couldn't survive the social class system. The Upper class resided in three sub divisions: Royal Class, Middle Upper Class, Lower Upper Class including royals to wealthy business men.

The Victorian Era, was an era of etiquette, manners, clothes, money, social activity and tea parties. Etiquette, manners, clothes, and money were all the victorian era was about. Men, women, and children were all different and had different roles in Victorian society. Clothes stated who you were and how much money you had. Men and women had to dress more appropriate and social, but children were a tad bit more free clothing choices, to a certain age.

In the early 1900s woman didn’t have many rights. In the Victorian time woman was put in and judge by their classes. In England Queen Victorian ruled the country. In this time child labor laws was horrible. The woman would have kids and they kids was working. At this time people was at an all-time low. If you didn’t have money you was needed to work cause your family would need the money. So you have 10 -14 maybe younger than that working in mills. And do wat they need to so they can live.

The Victorian Era was filled of many new inventions but the population wasn’t filled of rich people. Those who weren’t as wealthy as others are couldn’t afford an occupation and/or household, were in workhouses. These people had to maintain jobs in order for them to live in the workhouse. People living in workhouse had various different people including orphaned and abandoned children, physically and mentally ill, disabled, elderly and single mothers. Workhouses were frequently large because it must provide a home, jobs medical care, food, clothes, education for children and training for jobs.

The ideal woman in Victorian Times epitomized the good and virtuous woman whose live revolved around the domestic sphere of the family and home. She was pious, respectable and busy with no time for idle leisure. Her diligent and evident constant devotion to her husband, as well as to her God. She accepted her place in the sexual hierarchy. Her role was that of a domestic manager: wives and mothers. By the time that the industrial era was well under way in Britain, the ideology that committed the private sphere to the woman and the public sphere of business, commerce, and politics to the man had been widely dispersed. Women had to fight for an education equal to that of men, many struggled for suitable,

Pop culture itself has come a long way from where it all began; it has birthed its rightful place in America’s life forever and has been used to entertain large audiences across the globe. In the 1900’s, we begin to see Victorianism and its ethics begin to fade and be transformed by the culture that is forming within the time. The questions I will be connecting to “Tarzan of the Apes” and “The Jazz Singer” is; how the rise of popular culture challenged and transforms Victorian ideals of man and womanhood and what characteristics Victorian men and women were supposed to possess. When answering how the rise of popular culture challenged and transformed Victorian ideals of man and womanhood, I must first express the characteristics that Victorian men and women were expected to possess.

I'm going to be talking about the victorian era and what they did for fun for fun. This topic is going to focus on mainly children and adults on what they did for fun in the victorian era. You should be able to relate to some of the things that they did.

man or had a single sexual liaison with another man, her husband had legal grounds to divorce her, keep any money she brought into the wedding, and

In these times there was a lack of education, especially to the female population as it wasn 't deemed nessisary. Skills were passed down through generations as opposed to being learnt in schools. This often lead to protests declaring that children were being used for slavery and being stripped fo their adolescence and things that are vital for growth and understanding. With the pressures for social reforms the victorian upperclass then became obsessed with idea of

During Victoria’s reign there were changes of great importance economically, socially, and technologically. London had a rapid growth from a 2 million to a 6.5 million population by the time of Queen Victoria’s death, due to a significant change. As a result of the industrialization, instead of a life based on ownership of lands, England was transformed to a modern economy. Based on trade and manufacturing they changed from an agrarian society in 1800’s with 75% rural to an industrial society by the 1900’s with a 75% modern urban economy. Socially, there were extreme discriminations especially between men and women. Consequently, women were not eligible for a higher education, employment and were denied the right to vote. Gradually and by the end of Victoria’s reign, women won significant political and legal rights. These included a greater access to education, the custody of children, economic independence and were able to work under fair conditions. Definitely, the Victorian Period was an era of dramatic changes that highly developed England’s power and

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,