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Victorian Women
An Age of Paradox
Legal Status
• Married women subordinate
• Matrimonial Causes Act (1857)– Divorce through courts instead of
Parliament
• Widows and unmarried women less so
Cult of Domesticity
Mrs. Beeton
Class Roles Matter
• Aristocracy
• Middle Classes
• Crinoline (Hoopskirt)
Mythbusters
• 30% unmarried by age 35
• More than 50% worked outside the home
• Many different occupations
• Largest group: servants
Florence Nightingale
• 1820-1910
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, MD
• 1836-1917
Seeds of Feminism
• Divorce Bill of 1857
• Bedford College
• Women’s Suffrage
• The Subjection of Women
Queen Victoria
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