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 ...

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.

The film explores the Victorian era in England during Queen Victoria's reign (1837-1901) and its reflection in the works of Charles Dickens. It highlights the contrasts of the time, including ...

"To discover Victorian openness," Gay writes, "its measured candor, is one of the most astonishing rewards of studying middle-class culture. If 'Victorian' is a synonym for 'squeamishness' or ...

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 ...

Touching on philanthropic initiatives in public housing, Picard also describes the architectural quirks of the typical Victorian middle-class terraced house and the everyday workings of the city's ...