1880 - 1910 Context - Mindmap in A Level and IB English Literature

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Divided gender roles
- Women were expected to remain at home, produce children etc.
- 1880 - 1910 Context
  - Late Victorian (-1901), early Edwardian era
  - Christian society and morality
    - Charity work
    - Child labour laws came into force
    - Moral decay
      - Devolution
      - Drugs and prostitution
  - Advances of science (Darwin) and engineering - following industrial revolution
  - Suffragettes/ suffragists
    - Disnefranchised
    - Women's rights - to vote
  - Nationalism
    - Ireland - (rightfully) causing issues under English control
    - Britain as a colonial force
    - British Empire as established by Queen Victoria
  - Morbid fascination with death
    - Frequency of illness
    - High infancy mortality rate
    - Queen Victoria's prolonged period of mourning following her husband's death made it "fashionable"
    - Ghosts and the supernatural
- Men were allowed to vote - a patriarchal society
Industrialization
- Advances of science (Darwin) and engineering - following industrial revolution
- Rural to urban migration
- Living conditions were poor
- Working class/middle class divide became more prominent

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