This is a presentation I made about the victorian age , it mainly talks about the social life of the victorian era but has briefs about other points , hope you enjoy it .
-made by Shahd Hamouri from Jordan
11. Victorian Prosperity - The Country Becomes Urban Victorian prosperity for an elite was built on the development of new machinery, new work methods and an underpaid workforce consisting of adults and children living in wretched poverty. Many people previously rural became urbanised by the new rail transport. Country families often drifted into towns to stay with other relatives whilst seeking work.
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19. At the beginning of the Victorian era skirts went straight down . Later it became fashionable for women to wear their skirts spread over large hoops. At the end of the era, the hoop disappeared from view and it was back to slimmer skirts, although now sporting a bustle
37. the late Victorians were very familiar with many of the things we use everyday. The one thing that was different was the place of women in society. There were of course perceptive women of independent original thought, To lump all women of the Victorian era as one body would be wrong. The era spanned 64 years and changes in attitudes were gradually shifting as the century closed.
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39. A Woman's Qualities The accepted reasoning was that the career for women was marriage. To get ready for courtship and marriage a girl was groomed like a racehorse. In addition to being able to sing, play an instrument and speak a little French or Italian, the qualities a young Victorian gentlewoman needed, were to be innocent, virtuous, biddable, dutiful and be ignorant of intellectual opinion.
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76. Ladies and gentlemen welcome to our Victorian pride dance Tonight the first dance shall be the waltz , the Following partners will be dancing : Lady Mary daughter of sir Liegh and Sir Gorge theThird Son of sir Teabing Lady Margert daughter of Sir Garnnet and Sir Andrew Son of SirJames Du le rue