Victorian Age
Queen Victoria
1837-1901
+ Albert
9 children
FAMILY MODEL
Women
controlled family $
brought up children
repressed sexuality
prudery and chastity
fallen women
considered PHISICALLY WEAKER but MORALLY SUPERIOR
divine guides
duty to respect them
Reforms
1832
First Reform Act
1833
Factory Act
1834
Poor Law Amendment Act
1838
People's Charter
failded
1846
Corn Laws
1867
Second Reform Act
1872
Ballot Act
Children
Child labour was common
Irish Potato Famine
Emigration
Factories and Workhouses
Split families
Appalling life
Puritan values
Hard Work
Frugality
Duty
Idea: poor would improve their condition
Slums
Hipocrisy
Outward Respectability
A1pearances
Good Manners
Self Restraint
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
A Christmas Carol
Hard Times
Mr. Gradgrind