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Middle Class was not only or just about $! It was about:
1) Respectability and Reliability (working class not respectable or reliable)
2) Manners were important - no elbows on table
3) Clean clothes - multiple outfits
4) Washing hands and bathing
5) Using proper English
6) Drinking in moderation- temperance
7) The Home as almost a private "church" or "temple"
8) Cult of Domesticity - women rule the home- the priestess : teaching morals, manner and respectable behavior
Funeral Parlors took funerals out of the home - in the parlor - and made them more "respectable" affairs.
Questions:
1) What does Middle Class mean in the Gilded Age?
2) Why did the Middle Class come into existence?
Lydia Maria Child wrote in 1877: "all want to crowd into employments deemed genteel, that do not soil the clothes or the hands.
Collared Shirts - White Was the Fashion
Middle Class Life- Does this
life look/feel familiar to you?
Is Middle Class life a new
iteration of the American Dream?
Main Line Philadelphia- refers to the "main" train line of the Pennsylvania Railroad- new towns & communities, houses, churches, schools, shops, open spaces, and lawns.
The great capitalist-industrial
revolution transformed the USA:
shopping, suburban homes, leisure
Middle Class dates to 1889