I try to provide a brief overview of how life was during the Victorian era, How community treated women in particular, and both gender in general
GENDER AND NATION IN THE VICTORIAN ERA
The Victorian era was very different in Britain, where British society had reached the peak of power and control. Great Britain was the world's most powerful country to give birth to the period, which was reflected in the economic, social and cultural conditions in society. Women also played the role of Baz in this period, where women constituted in society power, control and beauty.
Women followed an unusual trend during the Victorian era. Women never cut their hair during this period, which was called Queen Victoria (1837-1901). Women's hair was an important part of their appearance and indicated their status and femininity.
Women followed an unusual trend during the Victorian era. Women never cut their hair during this period, which was called Queen Victoria (1837-1901). Women's hair was an important part of their appearance and indicated their status and femininity.
Despite the prosperity and abundance of funds in the Victorian era, the working class and farmers lived in great poverty within society. Benjamin Dzeraili, the prime minister of this period, described the United Kingdom as a country of two nations, one rich and one poor; where the nobility lived to exploit the country's wealth and enjoyment. While farmers and workers were struggling with life and lack of livelihood, also in the 19 century some writings, novels and some scientific theories belong to that era have also appeared to challenge religious teachings in the nation. The Victorian era was named after Queen Victoria, where she was the queen at that time, where Queen Victoria ruled the United Kingdom for a long period of time more than sixty years.
The Victorian era is one of the most important periods in modern British history, because of its great changes on large social scales. Where the intellectual movement witnessed many changes through the emergence of modern plays and novels has answers of a critical nature of society. There have also been significant changes in the role of women in British society. In the Victorian era, the middle classes saw women as belonging to the family sphere only, and their role was limited to the performance of domestic duties and raising children and should not exceed that role. Women's rights are very limited at this time, with the loss of ownership of their wages and all their property, including land and all their money as soon as they get married.
This period of time witnessed a lot of racial discrimination on the basis of gender, since women were unable to learn and study because education was not available to women, and it was racial discrimination. Which affected the cultural level of women in that period and it was difficult to create high education level among women to break social restrictions.
Sarah Stickney Ellis has written many books on women education in the Victorian era, one of them is The “Woman Question” where the role of women is the education of future generations and it is like a religious duty, Where the role of women was considered to be a moral role through the guidance and support of men.
Women did not have a significant role in the cultural level of the society where their role was limited. Their role in work was to provide the daily necessities of food, drink and housing, if their husbands were unable to work permanently. In the early 19th century, people believed that physical activities could be dangerous and inappropriate for women, and they were not allowed to work. The societal outlook was that women should maintain their health in order to have healthy children.
Where the physiological differences between women and men was seen as evidence that women should not work in society, and that their role is limited to having and raising children.
Among poetic poems that may be somewhat complicated. But I enjoyed it when I understood it correctly is “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning, and here is a part of it;
That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now; Fra Pandolf’s hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said
“Fra Pandolf” by design, for never read
Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
The depth and passion of its earnest glance,
But to myself they turned (since none puts by
The curtain I have drawn for you, but I)
And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst,
How such a glance came there; so, not the first
Are you to turn and ask thus. Sir, ’twas not
Her husband’s presence only, called that spot
Of joy into the Duchess’ cheek; perhaps
Fra Pandolf chanced to say, “Her mantle laps
Over my lady’s wrist too much,” or “Paint
Must never hope to reproduce the faint
Half-flush that dies along her throat.” Such stuff
Was courtesy, she thought, and cause enough
For calling up that spot of joy. She had
Among poetic poems that may be somewhat complicated. But I enjoyed it when I understood it correctly is “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning, and here is a part of it;
That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now; Fra Pandolf’s hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said
“Fra Pandolf” by design, for never read
Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
The depth and passion of its earnest glance,
But to myself they turned (since none puts by
The curtain I have drawn for you, but I)
And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst,
How such a glance came there; so, not the first
Are you to turn and ask thus. Sir, ’twas not
Her husband’s presence only, called that spot
Of joy into the Duchess’ cheek; perhaps
Fra Pandolf chanced to say, “Her mantle laps
Over my lady’s wrist too much,” or “Paint
Must never hope to reproduce the faint
Half-flush that dies along her throat.” Such stuff
Was courtesy, she thought, and cause enough
For calling up that spot of joy. She had