1. The Victorian Age

2. Queen Victoria Queen victoria was born May 27, 1819
After William the 4th died in 1837, she became Queen of England
She fell in love with her cousin, Prince Albert, and got married in February
She died at age 80 in 1901
Queen Victoria and her family
Queen Victoria as a baby

3. The Beginning
By the beginning of the Victorian Age, Britain had shifted out of the Industrial Revolution
This shift created profound economic and social changes
Mass Migration of workers to industrial towns
Victoria set a strict code of morals and manners
Piece of Victorian art

4. Women of the Victorian age having tea
Victorian Issues
4 controversies that concerned the Victorians:
-Industrialism
-Rule of women
-Evolution
-British forces working to expand their global influence
Women of the Victorian age having tea

5. Wealthy women from Victorian Age
Social Classes
Upper Classes
-Changed from hereditary Aristocrats to nobility and wealthy commercial class
-Did not work, wealth came from inherited land and investments
Middle Class
-Performed mental or “clean” work
-Was paid monthly or annually
-Was steadily growing at the time
Wealthy women from Victorian Age

6. Working class family on the streets
Conditions were very poor and had little rights
Huge amount of child labor
3 reform bills were passed
-Gradually gave all men over 21 suffrage
-Children under 9 years of age could not work in textile
-Didn’t curb the growing teenage prostitution
Working class family on the streets
Working class family

7. Group of laboring children
Average Wages
Aristocrats - £30,000
Middle Class - £
-Doctors, lawyers, clerks, etc.
Lower Middle Class - £
-Journalists, shopkeepers, etc.
Laborers and Soldiers - £25
Group of laboring children

8. The Victorian Age Ends
In 1861, Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, died. She became grief stricken and refused to appear in public.
On January 22, 1901 Queen Victoria died at age 80
Queen Victoria’s death marked the end of the Victorian Age, and the beginning of the Edwardian age
Victoria on her wedding day
Victoria’s funeral proceeding