Victorian America

Formally, the Victorian Era followed the reign of Queen Victoria in England from 1837 to 1901, but the era is not so rigidly set. The ideologies, values, and mores associated with the Victorian Era were present before Queen Victoria, and then followed into America and also lived sixty years past its recorded date of death. In the United States during the 1950s and 60s, the idea of femininity was still being explored, just as it was a century prior in another country. Women in the Victorian Era and in

Tea time is more popular than ever in America today. Tea rooms are springing up everywhere. Fine hotels are once again promoting their new services and with Americans choosing a healthier life style, he late afternoon meal is much in style. Todays "tea time" is considerably different than during the Victorian Era. Many people do not talk face-to face with others anymore, instead using their phone. Tea time also known as afternoon tea, Victorian tea, high tea, and five-o 'clock tea, may be one of

In modern day America and many other countries, it is common for women to express their sexuality. Trends such as crop tops and high-waisted shorts have allowed this to be acceptable to society. During the 19th century Victorian era, behaviors like such would be outrageous and horrifying. In that time, sexuality was especially feared. Women were viewed as domestic goddesses; their only desire was to care for the family and fulfill their husband’s needs. It became quite common that women came to also

The Victorian era was around the mid to late 1800s and was named after Queen Victoria, who took the crown at age eighteen in 1837. This era provided women with more rights, though they still had very few, and many women’s rights movements started happening towards the end of the era. The sexualization of the female body became a common thing, and women often used their bodies to get men, which did have a downfall because rape was not uncommon. Colonization became more popular during this time

.slavery, even - especially considering the vast options women in the modern workforce have. One could also assume that no one would ever want to become willful sex worker, but some may see it as a necessary evil to provide for themselves. In Victorian Society, being a sex worker may have been one of the few options open to women of the lower or working class to survive without being forced into the

Victorian era architecture is some of the most amazing style housing to date. This kind of architecture is mainly found on the east coast and occasionally in the west coast,however Arizona is lucky because we have a select few that are still around today, one of them being the Rosson house. The Rosson house is an amazing sight to see and a huge part of Arizona history. Its architecture and history of the house makes it a truly artistic and unique place to visit. The house was built in 1895 by

Both the Victorian Era and 1950s and 1960s America featured inflexible expectations of a wife and her views on marriage. Grant Allen, a Victorian essayist, in “Plain Words on the Women Question” in 1889, wrote, “We ought frankly to recognize that most women must be wives and mothers: that most women should therefore be trained, physically, morally, socially, and mentally, in the way best fitting for them to be wives and mothers” (Broadview Anthology 628). Essentially, Allen holds the belief that

in the Victorian era “the only good complexion was a pale complexion”(On Beauty). Some women in order to achieve a pale complexion they would use lead-based paints. Women most importantly were advised to stay away from makeup for the reason that face paint and cosmetics were utilized by performers and prostitutes (On Beauty). Doe-like eyes were popular during this time period so women would drop Belladonna-known as “deadly nightshade”-a poison that would cause blindness (Weird Victorian Standards)

Baum was outlining the parameters of his “America”, and a part of that included things like ideal Americans, deciding who belonged and who did not and who should be excluded as others. Like this story of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”, most popular texts and forms of art tend to have some kind of relationship

Economics of the Late Victorian Era With the power of wealth and concentration of industry, the tremendous development in machinery, and power to drive machinery; with the improvement of the tools of labor, so that they are wonderfully tremendous machines, and with these all on the one hand; with labor, the workers, performing a given part of the whole product, probably an infinitesimal part, doing the thing a thousand or thousands of times over and over again in a day-labor divided and subdivided