The Public Culture of the Victorian Middle Class. Ritual and Authority in the English Industrial City, 1840-1914 by Simon Gunn, ... Occupational Change and Social Mobility in Europe, ...

Sure they might have been sticklers for following the rules, but from being courted to dressing up for dinner, some Victorian ...

The Victorian era was a golden age for the middle classes. Industrialists, bankers and clerks were all able to send their children to school to the age of 12 or 14.

In Brontë's Jane Eyre social class is a recurring theme, as class dictates what a character can and can't do and how they are viewed by others. This is because in the Victorian period, class ...

The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age By Harriet Ritvo Harvard University Press, 347 pages, $25 In 1800 the East India Co. put on display at its London offices a m… ...

Charles Dickens – Social Class & early Victorian Medicine December 02, 2011. Elizabeth Negus MA, Head of English at Barking & Dagenham College, Essex will discuss the relationship between social class ...

Donna Loftus explores how social change transformed the aspirations of an emerging Victorian middle class and the value this class represented. The image of the nineteenth century as a period of ...