unseen prose context - 1890-1910
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- Created on: 24-06-17 10:23
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- Unseen English Literature
- 1890-1910
- America - new world power 1900- Boxer Rebellion in china - US, Britain and Germany are affiliated
- Life expectancy in Britain - 45 for an average middle class man, children were expected to live up until their 5th birthday
- Believed in Britain that bad smells caused disease rather than bacteria
- Florence Nightingale - made nurses into highly trained professionals the death rate from post-operative shock and ‘hospital gangrene’ fell dramatically
- Those suffering with mental health or nervous disorders were sent to County Asylums - women could be locked away there if their husbands disapproved of their behaviour - cf the Woman in White
- Popular culture in Victorian Britain
- Penny gaffs - 1p: back rooms clogged with smoke - women 8-20 years old; performers - crude ballads
- freak shows - popular e.g. Elephant Man
- 1834 saw a particularly horrid murder. Waxwork figures of the murdered woman and her four murdered children, dressed in their own clothes, had the public paying to see them in the very rooms where they had died.
- Jack the Ripper
- Women
- Crinoline skirt - women could not move as easily - the heavy bell-shaped piece restricted them so much that they were virtually confined in their homes
- Women pre 1830 helped out in business with husbands/ fathers because they would typically live above said businesses- after 1830s more factory work meant that men commuted to work and women were confined to their houses all day
- idea of separate spheres - men and women were completely different: women were physically weaker but morally stronger than men
- Not only was it their job to counterbalance the moral taint of the public sphere in which their husbands laboured all day, they were also preparing the next generation to carry on this way of life.
- Crinoline skirt - women could not move as easily - the heavy bell-shaped piece restricted them so much that they were virtually confined in their homes
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- Women continued
- No-one wanted to be called a ‘blue-stocking’, the name given to women who had devoted themselves too enthusiastically to intellectual pursuits. - considered unfeminine and off-putting in the way that they attempted to usurp men’s ‘natural’ intellectual superiority. Some doctors reported that too much study actually had a damaging effect on the ovaries, turning attractive young women into dried-up prunes. Later in the century, when Oxford and Cambridge opened their doors to women, many families refused to let their clever daughters attend for fear that they would make themselves unmarriageable
- 1890-1910
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