Jane Eyre ~ context
- Created by: aanujesu74
- Created on: 05-03-20 11:29
View mindmap
- Jane Eyre ~ Context
- Women's roles in the 19th century
- generally trapped in their homes
- only perform domestic chaos and duties
- Ideal woman?
- extremely active and diligent
- unceasing flow of spirits
- punctuality and frugality
- firm reliance on God
- She may have resembled Mrs Frances Goodby, the wife of the Reverend J Goodby
- common female occupations
- work in textiles and clothing factories
- coal and tin mines
- working in commerce
- farm
- Many women were employed in small industries
- known as 'sweated industries' because the working hours were long and pay was very low
- Education
- designed to teach middle class and upper class girls enough to make them attractive marriage material for men
- conformed to class expectations
- lessons were often taught in the home
- taught the very basics of reading, writing, arithmetic and domestic skills
- were not encouraged to have academic aspirations
- too much knowledge could affect women’s fertility
- Governess
- a woman employed to teach children in a private household
- reading, writing and arithmetic to the youngest
- the older girls in French conversation, history and or Geography
- older teens drawing, playing piano, dancing and deportment
- Women's roles in the 19th century
Comments
No comments have yet been made