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BY: Alison Carroll Jake Collier Jacob Walker Autumn Baugh Makayla Bagget . Daily Life. Alison Carroll. Levels of Society. Rich classes- Their homes were much better, they were built better and larger. The rich could afford new technology and many labor saving devices.
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BY: Alison Carroll Jake Collier Jacob Walker Autumn Baugh Makayla Bagget Daily Life
Levels of Society • Rich classes- Their homes were much better, they were built better and larger. The rich could afford new technology and many labor saving devices. • Middle classes- Middle class women may have worked within family businesses Their homes were almost as good as rich classes. • Lower classes-Few children received education. Poor homes usually had 9 to 10 children
Life in Towns • Homelessness was a constant problem in towns. Specially for people who wasn’t able to work. • While new technology was being discovered in towns, Farms for most people were a real life saver. They had food supply and enough to drink and could sell crops in towns. • Many people lost their jobs and homes in towns.
Women at Work • The wealthy women of the upper classes did not need to work unless they became in poverished following the death of their husband or father there for all their things past down. • Middle class women may have worked in a family business or maybe as a Teacher or governess. • Women of upper working classes had to have a education for most of their jobs.
The Public World • At the beginning of the century Victorians knew where they stood. • They were part of the prejudice against manual labor that marked someone as having a aspiration to gentility-Persons of high social standing considered as a group. • Dukes , Marquises, and Earls were on top except that possession of a distinguished family name and a great land holding.
“Roles of Men” • Men were supposed to work real jobs and bring money home to their family • They were also supposed to do all of the repairs on the house- interior and exterior • Men were to be good role models for their sons and daughters
“Roles of Women” • Some women had to work real jobs, too. Some common jobs were: Job Number of women -House servant 905,000 -Dress maker 304,000 -Cotton worker 272,000 -Farm worker 227,000 -Washer woman 145,000 -Woolen worker 113,000
“Roles of Women” • In the 19th century, women had few rights • Women of all classes were regarded as the property of their husbands, and so were their money • This went on until the Property Rights Act of 1882 • When women went to prison, they were forced to take their children with them
“Roles of Women” • When jobs were open to women, most became teachers • By 1900, there were only 200 women doctors • In 1910, women were allowed to be bankers • When husbands or fathers could not take care of their family due to illness or death, the women had to support them.
“Children in Victorian Times” • Children sometimes had to go to prison with their parents • Elizabeth Fry set up schools inside the prison for the children • As well as their mothers, children were considered the property of their fathers • Children could be sent to work at the age of five, and could be imprisoned in their own homes
“Etiquette” • Men and women addressed each other like “Mr._____” or “Mrs.____” • The daughters called their parents “Mama” and “Papa”, while the sons called them “Mother” or “Father” • Young girls were called “Miss____” • Siblings would address each other by surname only • To the servants, the master and mistresses of the house were called “Sir” and “Madam”
“Etiquette” • Table rules for the guest: • Never use your knife to eat, under any circumstances; It is unnecessary and vulgar. A knife is only for cutting. • Avoid too slow or rapid eating; one would appear as if you didn’t like your dinner, the other as though you are afraid you would not get enough. • You can never use your knife, fork, or spoon too quietly.
“Etiquette” 4. All such acts as leaning over on the side in your chair, placing your elbows on the table, or on the back of your neighbor’s chair, gaping, twisting about restlessly in your seat are to be avoided. 5. In visiting your intimate friends, ceremony may generally be dispensed with. 6. However, if you become too engrossed in the relative speed at which you are eating, it is entirely possible that you will bb unable to keep up your end of the conversation, which would be far ruder.
Outfits • Corsets are narrow-waisted and very fashionable to ladies, right up to the end of Victoria’s reign. Corsets were made of steel, wood, or bone, which were so tightly laced they restricted breathing, causing some women to faint. • Bustles replaced crinoline. Skirts were draped over a frame of padded cushions to give more fullness to the back of the dress. It strapped onto the corset and around their waist-down.
Jewelry • Women wore cameo’s, a necklace or earring with a woman’s face inprinted into it. • A mourning locket shows a woman crying beside a burial urn (a conatiner for ashes) and weeping willow leaves, which are a traditional symbol of greif. Worn in mourning periods. • Mourning jewelry is worn for several days after a passing of a family member. The demand for mournign jewelry was so powerful, it was mass produced. Mourning jewelry is a darkish jewelry that is worn often.
Attire • Boots were usually above the ankle and laced up. Usually in dark colors, depending on the color of the outfit. • Dresses were usually layered and long, large in the back and with ribbons gathering in the back, near the rump.
Accessories • Ladies carried many fashion accessories, particularly when attending social functions, In addition to jewelry, they might carry a fan. Complete with artificial flower decoration. • Hair accessories were feathers, hair pins, flower pieces, and lace. Many women wore hair accessories. Small ornate objects were put in any part of the hair, wigs, and hair peices.
Classes • Working class children wore cast-offs or cut down adult clothes, while wealthier families dressed their children very formally in miniature versions of adult styles. Boys and girls both wore dresses until about the age of 5. • In about 1891 sewing machines were not invented to make tailors, seamstresses, and shoe makers more rebundant. But to make designs and shoes more daring. In which certain classes didn’t have new clothes, due to money.
Poor Class Homes • They had lodging houses cottages and poorly made homes. • The lodging houses had 7 to 8 per room • These houses had no paint little furniture • No indoor plumbing • In the slums had one bed to a room each house had seven rooms
Middle Class Homes • They had more basic items then the rich or poor. • They had a decent amount of furniture per each room. • They didn’t have home schooling only public school. • The owners where lawyers,doctors,bankers, etc.
Rich class homes • They had servants like maids, cooks • They had electric lighting, running water • They had many rooms for certain things • They had the latest technology like sewing machine, telephone. • They also had music players.
Over all Homes • Poor people lived in terraced homes (bad homes). • Middle class moved from the dirt to a suburb like place. • The rich had extra large homes with expensive furniture • Over all the Victorians houses had been poorly made to extravagant
EDUCATION • Ragged schools - children wore rags. • Dame schools- schools ran by women in there own homes. • Public schools – children were sometimes treated cruelly.
EDUCATION • The education act was by parliament which only allowed children to work until 10:00 am only. • At Bowes Academy in Yorkshire 25 pupils died from neglect ,starvation ,or disease. From the time of 1810 to 1834.
MEDICINE • There was no proper sewage system which lead to a variety of diseases such as cholera, typhus, and typhoid. • Poor housing conditions lead to tuberculosis and consumption. • People died of shock ,because of there was no painkillers. James Simpson successfully used chloroform on a patient.
RELIGION AND ENTERTAINMENT • In the Victorian age 6 out of 10 people went to church every Sunday. • Theatre halls were filled with ventriloquists, hypnotists, poets and comedians . • Churches were built in growing communities.
