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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/>.)

Works Cited

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Dec. 1997. Web. 28 Sept. 2012. <http://kspot.org/holmes/kelsey.htm>.

Haug, Melissa. "Victorian Garden Party." Victorian

Homes and Gardens. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Sept. 2012. <http://www.victoriana.com/gardening/gardenparty.php>.

Matuschke, Daniel, and Jonathan Strömer. "The Social Aspects."

The Victorian Age. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Sept. 2012. <http://www.gymnasium-meschede.de/projekte/projekt12-05/Englisch/social_aspects.htm#Social Classes>.

Picard, Liza. "Victorians." British Library. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Sept. 2012.

<http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/victorians/victorianhome.html>.

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Web. 28 Sept. 2012. <http://www.victorianlifestyle.org/?p=160>.

"Social Class." Victorian England: An Introduction. N.p., n.d.

Web. 28 Sept. 2012. <http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/VictorianEngland.htm>.

The Victorian Web. N.p., 31 July 2005. Web. 30 Sept. 2012.

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