Victorian Era 维多利亚时代

TYPICAL INCOMES (YEARLY)
Aristocrats £30,000 Merchants, bankers £10,000 Middle-class (doctors, lawyers, clerks) £300-800 Lower middle-class (head teachers, journalists, shopkeepers, etc.) £150-300 Skilled workers (carpenters, typesetters,etc.) £75100 Sailors and domestic staff £40-75 Laborers, soldiers £25
19TH CENTURY ENGLAND
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

It accelerated the migration of the population from country to overcrowded c 1876 the telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell The radio was invented in 1895 by Guglielmo Marconi. The camera, toilet, sewing machine, vacuum, train and stamp were all created during the Victorian Era. Factories began to be powered by steam. The police force was created during this period.
Great Expectations
Charlotte Brontë (18161855) Emily Brontë (1818-1848) Anne Brontë
(1820-1849)
Agnes Grey
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)
夏洛蒂· 勃朗特
Jane Eyre

MORALS AND CONDUCT
Children were not allowed to be loud and did not spend much time with their parents. A lady did not wear a dress that would show her ankles.
VICTORIAN ERA
I.
HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND
1.
Queen Victoria became Queen at the age of 18 in 1837.
ruled Britain 63 years
She
QUEEN VICTORIA
IN
OLD AGE
BRITISH EMPIRE IN 1914
It was the largest empire ever, consisting of over 25% of the world's population and area.

2. A Period of Growth,

England became the "workshop of the world".

Darwin: Origin of Species
Charles Dickens Victorian Novelist
Oliver Twist The novel is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and life of the underworld in the 19th-century London.

EDUCATION
Education in nineteenth-century England was not equal - not between the sexes, and not between the classes. Gentlemen would be educated at home by a governess or tutor until they were old enough to attend schools such as Eton. After that, they would attend Oxford or Cambridge. A lady's education was takenat home.

SOCIAL CLASS
Working class - men and women who performed physical labor, paid daily or weekly wages Middle class - men performed mental or "clean" work, paid monthly or yearly Upper class - did not work, income came from inherited land and investments