1. Learning Objectives To understand that ways of life differed greatly across Victorian society To write a fictional letter using historical detail To know that girls in other parts of the world still don’t have the same educational opportunities as boys

2. Poor Victorian Children
1840
1872
1842
1880’s
1842

3. Rich Victorian Children
Copyright Victorian and Albert Museum, London.
1844
Harrow 1887
Eton
1872

4. Beatrix Potter Mary Anning
English author, illustrator, mycologist & conservationist.
Potter was educated by governesses - her parents wanted her to be a housekeeper.
As the result of her drawings of fungi, she was respected throughout England as an expert mycologist.
British fossil collector, dealer and paleontologist.
Her education was extremely limited - she learned to read and write at Sunday School.
Her discoveries included the first ichthyosaur skeleton, the first two plesiosaur skeletons ever found, and fish fossils.