1. Victorian Women: Daily Life
Corinne McClenahan and My Lynn Nguyen
Engl 273

2. Introduction
Around 1848 women in Victorian England were different throughout the various classes. Society and the economy had a great deal to do with how they dressed, behaved, and the present conceptions of Victorian women
Many women supported themselves and their family with paying jobs, as well as already having the domestic life to return to.
“Sexuality, intellect, and personal satisfaction were not emphasized.” (Beeton)
“Feminine happiness was the result of faithful execution of domestic duties, making the good bourgeois wife an angel of the house.” (Beeton)

3. Choose a class Underclass Upper class Middle working

4. UNDERCLASS/LOWERCLASS
Lower than the lowest workers, many women resorted to prostitution to take care of themselves and their children. The struggling economy and low job availability left unskilled women to face poverty, illness, and disease on the streets, many of who were elderly as well.

5. seamstresses, mill workers -working on the farm, factories, and mines
-wash clothing for upper classes and are servants
-some would prepare and sell fish or make or repair nets

6. MIDDLE
Around the 1840’s women were becoming more and more responsible for themselves and their family. As a result, they began holding occupations including: tradeswomen, attorneys, hoteliers engineers, teachers (school mistresses, governesses). Female writers such as Charlotte Bronte challenged impressions of what is appropriate behavior for women, through creating a prominent heroine character in Jane Eyre (1847)

7. http://19thcenturyhistorian. files. wordpress. com/2013/05/image142
Victorian kitchen." Photos/Illustrations. “Our Life in a Flat,” in Hellis, Nellie. The Girl's Own Paper February 28, Daily Life through History. ABC-CLIO, Web. 2 Dec
“Needlework and teaching were seen as ‘natural’ professions for women at this time”. (VictorianWeb)

8. UPPER CLASS The Uplands and The Lawn
Exclusively for wealthy women, lived in these houses that overlooked the sea and gardens
if a woman had a good education then she might become a governess (a woman employed to teach children in a private household.)

9. Women of this class usually associated with others of their class.
if she was born into a wealthy family, then her family would set her up with a school or small business
Women of this class usually associated with others of their class.
Princess Victoria

10.
Woman and daughter dusting parlor." Photos/Illustrations. Library of Congress. Daily Life through History. ABC-CLIO,2014. Web. 2 Dec
A fashionable lady in dress and undress" ( 1807)." Daily Life through History. ABC-CLIO, Web. 2 Dec

11. Thank you

12. Work Cited
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