June 20, 1837, until her death on January 22, 1901, Queen Victoria’s reign had set out a whole new trend from progressing technology, to new clothes that would inspire modern-day clothing wear, to gender roles, religion, arts, and literature would change our world forever. Alexandrina Victoria was born on May 24, 1819, to her parents Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld in Kensington Palace, London, United Kingdom. Alexandrina, later became known as Queen Victoria, on June 20, 1832, after the death of her uncle William IV and served as queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837, until her death. She and along with Great Britain had established colonies in India and Canada and the Americas.
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Women had a schedule and personal life but men had all kinds of freedom and were able to vote, “The second reform bill of 1867 added working urban men has voters. The third reform bill of 1884 and the redistribution act of 1885 together advanced universal male suffrage”(Fig notes). But as a result of the electoral reform bills, women were able to attend universities and shorter work day for women and children. The highest job a woman could be was a teacher but the feminist movements of this time helped women come out behind closed doors. As time passed, women were given the equal status as men. Also, family structure in the Victorian period was very valuable every day. Having a large family and six children was very common in the 1800s and important to the working life. The father of the family would work long hours and be the support barrier for the family. The mother would clean and cook because that's what her role was as a mother and not a worker. The children would be taken care of by a nanny that was hired by the parents and the nanny would fulfill the duty of the being a parent for the children and take care of them and educate them, “Children, however, did not spend a lot of time with their mother or father. In an average day, most time was probably spent with someone like a nanny which would have also …show more content…
philosophy. Most Victorians thought that religion was the only guide to a moral life and many other questioned that because of science. Many also thought that the religious truth was the only truth when in reality many stories in the bible were just biblical stories and were not true. This period was characterized by the progress of science and technology which cause a setback to the strong belief of this time and this had started the conflict and attention between religion and science. This had also started spurring more because of Charles Darwin’s publication of Origin of Species explaining his evolution of species, “This major factor of this conflict was Charles Darwin’s publication of Origin of Species in 1859. This book conflicted with biblical truth” (Fig notes). Darwin thought that millions of species present today evolved slowly over billions of years from a common ancestor. He called the process, “natural selection,” and it had an emphasis on the individual that had the best adaptation to their habitat would be able to pass down traits to their offspring. Many thought this was too much because God was the creator of everything from the beginning and that’s why there was much conflict between the Christianity and science. For the most part of this era, many Victorian people were religious, but the conflict grew to question more of
Women had a schedule and personal life but men had all kinds of freedom and were able to vote, “The second reform bill of 1867 added working urban men has voters. The third reform bill of 1884 and the redistribution act of 1885 together advanced universal male suffrage”(Fig notes). But as a result of the electoral reform bills, women were able to attend universities and shorter work day for women and children. The highest job a woman could be was a teacher but the feminist movements of this time helped women come out behind closed doors. As time passed, women were given the equal status as men. Also, family structure in the Victorian period was very valuable every day. Having a large family and six children was very common in the 1800s and important to the working life. The father of the family would work long hours and be the support barrier for the family. The mother would clean and cook because that's what her role was as a mother and not a worker. The children would be taken care of by a nanny that was hired by the parents and the nanny would fulfill the duty of the being a parent for the children and take care of them and educate them, “Children, however, did not spend a lot of time with their mother or father. In an average day, most time was probably spent with someone like a nanny which would have also …show more content…
philosophy. Most Victorians thought that religion was the only guide to a moral life and many other questioned that because of science. Many also thought that the religious truth was the only truth when in reality many stories in the bible were just biblical stories and were not true. This period was characterized by the progress of science and technology which cause a setback to the strong belief of this time and this had started the conflict and attention between religion and science. This had also started spurring more because of Charles Darwin’s publication of Origin of Species explaining his evolution of species, “This major factor of this conflict was Charles Darwin’s publication of Origin of Species in 1859. This book conflicted with biblical truth” (Fig notes). Darwin thought that millions of species present today evolved slowly over billions of years from a common ancestor. He called the process, “natural selection,” and it had an emphasis on the individual that had the best adaptation to their habitat would be able to pass down traits to their offspring. Many thought this was too much because God was the creator of everything from the beginning and that’s why there was much conflict between the Christianity and science. For the most part of this era, many Victorian people were religious, but the conflict grew to question more of