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Victorian Women:Daily Life

Corinne McClenahan andMy Lynn Nguyen

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Introduction

• Around 1848 women in Victorian Englandwere diferent throughout the various classes.Society and the economy had a great deal todo with how they dressed, behaved, and theresent concetions o! Victorian women

• "any women suorted themselves and their!amily with aying #obs, as well as alreadyhaving the domestic li!e to return to.

• $Se%uality, intellect, and ersonal satis!actionwere not emhasi&ed.' ()eeton*

•$+eminine hainess was the result o! !aith!ule%ecution o! domestic duties, maing thegood bourgeois wi!e an angel o! the house.'()eeton*

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=ower than the lowest worers, many women resortedto "rostitution to tae care o! themselves and theirchildren. @he struggling economy and low #obavailability le!t unsilled women to !ace overty,

illness, and disease on the streets, many o! who wereelderly as well.

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• seamstresses, mill worers

• woring on the !arm, !actories,and mines

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wash clothing !or uerclasses and are servants

• some would reare and sellsh or mae or reair nets

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Around the 1840Fs women werebecoming more and more resonsible!or themselves and their !amily. As aresult, they began holding occuationsincluding- tradeswomen, attorneys,hoteliers engineers, teachers (school

mistresses, governesses*.

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is aroriate behavior !or women,through creating a rominent heroinecharacter in Jane Eyre (184/*

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$:eedlewor and teaching were seen as OnaturalFro!essions !or women at this time'.

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E%clusively !or wealthy women, livedin these houses that overlooed thesea and gardens

i! a woman had a good educationthen she might become a governess(a woman emloyed to teach childrenin a rivate household.*

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i! she was born into a wealthy !amily, thenher !amily would set her u with a school orsmall business

?omen o! this class usually associated withothers o! their class.

Brincess Victoria

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