Women In The Victorian Era

"Woman, cook my dinner! Raise my children! Give me your property!"- said all men in the Victorian Era. Though women wore beautiful dresses, they lived a less than beautiful life-style. Her place was in the home, keeping everything (and everyone) clean, tidy and warm. A womans sole purpose was to birth children and then raise them. . In this era women were refered to as "crazy" or "mad" if they objected to the norm of living. Maybe they were just growing tired of male dominance and abuse. Marriage was the motto in the Victorian times, if a woman was not married young she could even be put into an asylum for being said "crazy" and "mad". Women in the Victorian Era had a tough living. A middle-class wife's number one job; above all else was to take care of her family. She was expected to keep her family clean, warm and as dry as possible. This proved to be quite difficult when they lived in slums that were practically rotting around them. It was not uncommon for a family (mother, father and multiple children) to live in a standard single-person …show more content…
You are second in command to your husband and he is always right; on all matters. A wife has only two good uses to her husband. The first being, to tend to her husbands property and the second, to birth and raise his children. A man did not want an 'ugly' wife so she would refuse food on many occasions to become annorexic. A woman wanted to be the "perfect" body image for her husband which often made them sick in the process. A woman was also not allowed to own property once she was married. If land was passed down to a woman, when she married a man the land automatically became his. It was also illegal for a woman to have her own bank account, men were in charge of all family finances. If being controlled by men while your married was not bad enough, even after a woman was able to file for divorce; the husband was in control of her land and