Upper Class
- Rich
- best of everything
- Front of buildings/closest to speaker
- Life easy
- Wore newest fashions
- "Work" -investing,planning, inheriting, and getting higher on social scale
- Servants did hard work for them
The Classes Of Victorian England
(VictorianSource.com, http<http://www.victoriansource.com/>.)
By Krista Fuoss
(Picard, <http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/victorians/victorianhome.html>.)
Daily Life in General
(Picard, <http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/victorians/victorianhome.html>.)
Middle Class
- Large Families- 5-6 children
- Father respected
- see parents maybe once a day.
Poor Children
- worked
- cleaning at factories
- Started at age 10
- Worked in a clean environment
- Not as wealthy as upper class
- Would usually get OK seats-behind upper class
Rich Children
- Brought up by nanny
- Older:
- Boys go to School
- Girls stay at home- expected to marry early
- Cook/Butler: important in higher classes
- Servants/Maids ordered by Cook/Butler
Events
- Included middle and upper classes
- Lawn Parties: Socializing/games
- Lawn Tennis with a racket and a ball
- Croquet
- Dances:
- usually on full moon
- outside
- candles
- Women greet guests
- Started at 8:00PM
(Haug, <http://www.victoriana.com/gardening/gardenparty.php>.)
The Rise of the Middle Class:
- 1851 and 1871.
- Boom in economic industry
- Needed people in this type of business
- People took jobs
- Gained social standing by earning it
- Very hard to rise on social scale
Daily Life of Lower Class
Working Class
Dinner time at the work house
(Picard, <http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/victorians/victorianhome.html>.)
(Victorian Web, <http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/london/56.html>.)
- Poor
- Lived in old houses
- Worked in factories
- Some servants for higher classes
- Sat at very back/had to stand
- Fear was going to work house
- Poor conditions
- Children died early
- Lots of sickness.
- Sometimes didn't get to stay together as family
(VictorianSource.com, http<http://www.victoriansource.com/>.)
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