Victorian england

The industrial revolution led to increases in population due to the deposits of coal and iron in areas such as the Midland and north of England. These places grew without planning and government supervision ensuring an unstable environment. Living conditions were unsanitary, housing production was terrible, and disease was strewed across the town. Firstly, living in these towns and cities meant an unsanitized and dirty life. These places had no sewerage pipes or rubbish collections, they relied on

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during your life. Oftentimes people will let their circumstances dictate what they become, but those striving to attain a higher status will usually find a way to change their circumstances if possible. One great example would be of women in Victorian England. Women during this era were given no legal status whatsoever. Typically women born within a higher class would have a better chance of marriage and lifestyle. They would still have no rights, but may live in comfort. Women born

Mental health was a very misunderstood concept within Victorian England. Everything a doctor knew was based off of pseudosciences. Their mental illness studies were conducted based off of the beliefs of phrenology, physiognomy, palmistry, and graphology. Phrenology was a belief that mental illness could be detected dependent upon the size of a person’s brain. England’s doctors also believed mental illnesses had to do with a person’s facial features, the lines in their hands, their race, or even their

in Hampshire. Charles was working for long hours in extremely bad conditions at the age of 12, experiences like have a huge influence on the way he writes his novels because they’re mostly about how the poor lived during Victorian Britain. Great expectations was set in Victorian Britain in the early nineteenth century, where women were seen more as objects or property than a human, where people where divided into social classes, e.g. you were either respectful, rich and led a luxurious life or were

Introduction At the beginning of the industrial revolution in England during the mid-nineteenth century, the railroad was the most innovative mode of transportation known. The British Rail system was a forerunner in railroad technology, uses, and underground engineering. Though the rail system was extremely slow at first and prohibitively expensive to build and run, the British were not to be dissuaded in their pursuit of non-animal driven transportation. The most advanced mode of transportation

All throughout Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s prominent Sherlock Holmes fiction, there seems to be a lot of themes concerning the social class structure of Victorian England. I do not believe that Doyle’s true objective was to depict Holmes as upholding the traditional state of affairs of that time, as class inequality was a very prominent thing. Women were regularly thought of as having less intelligence than males and there was a seething, developing tension building up between the three categorized

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. People who are starving and poor turn to crime to survive. Joyce

During the Tudor times in England, life was hard for the poor people while being more convenient for the rich. The poor inhabitants had small, dirty homes, usually with only one room for the whole family. They had homes made of straw; the rich could afford brick and had clean furniture with extra glass windows. According to these facts, the government should have donated more money and resources to the poor to maintain better homes. To begin with, the furniture and other appliances were very dirty

Victorian’s England of the 19th century? Introduction: In the Victorian and then Edwardian’s England, magazines directed to young readers had a central place in society. Reasons explaining this situation were numerous, for example the industrialization and the decreasing price of paper played an important part in the phenomenon. But one of the most important reasons was social reforms concerning education. Following a European global movement, the 1870’s Education Act in England had a strong