Context of A Christmas carol
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- Context of A Christmas carol
- The Victorian era
- The rich and the poor
- A rich woman's main goal was to marry.
- A poor woman would work as a teacher, governesses or a factory work.
- Upper class always had servants, maids, butlers and cooks.
- Upper class women wore a lot of different types of dresses. Most dress codes consisted of a white blouse underneath a puffy dress.
- Rich people didn't have to work because they had all the money they needed.
- Poor children often died of disease.
- Poor people lived in damp,filthy conditions.
- The workhouse
- Where poor people/ orphans who had no jobs or have no home go to.
- Abolished in the UK in1930
- Women mostly did domestic jobs like cleaning, helping in the kitchen or laundry.
- Men at the workhouse were given hard manual labour such as teasing out old rope and stone breaking.
- Charles Dickens
- Born on the 7th February 1812 and died on 9th June, 1870.
- Second of eight children.
- Charles and his wife had 10 children.
- Parents were John and Elizabeth Dickens.
- He began his career as a journalist.
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