Monday, June 23, 2008

Portrait of the Victorian Housewife


According to Yaffa Claire Draznin's book, Victorian London's Middle-Class Housewife: What She Did All Day, the Victorian housewife was stylish yet "proper".

A Quick Portrait of the Victorian Housewife
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~ 5 ft. tall, or shorter, and full-figured
~ fashionable, with long, curled hair, pinned up
~ properly attired in long dresses and bustle gowns
~ married at age 25, on average
~ mother of six children, on average
~ often an employer of a housemaid (or two) and a cook
~ a savvy consumer
~ a physical laborer who worked her fingers to the bone!

4 comments:

  1. A person who works and employs others - - sounds like a businesswoman!

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  2. I agree. She had a lot of work to do, and had to manage time and money well for the sake of her family.

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  3. So who actually did the labor of picking up the horse poop? Was it written in the book? Now that's really down in the dumps!

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  4. A lot of it wasn't picked up and that became a major problem! It would be swept aside or into piles by street sweepers until it was finally carried away and dumped somewhere else. Can you say stink-a-rooney?

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