The Victorian middle-class is largely associated with the growth ... Whilst women's work, either for wages or to ensure the success of the family business, might be essential, the idealised ...

What does he mean? Dr. Wingfield-Stratford's answer is that the Victorian middle class was ‘tragic’ because its members went on their earnest and triumphant way quite unwitting of the ...

Victoria became an icon of late-19th-century middle-class femininity and domesticity. ' The Victorian era ... of femininity which was centred on the family, motherhood and respectability.