Victorian Women An Age of Paradox. Legal Status Married women subordinate Matrimonial Causes Act (1857) –Divorce through courts instead of Parliament.

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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

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, MD

Seeds of Feminism Divorce Bill of 1857 Bedford College Women’s Suffrage The Subjection of Women

Queen Victoria

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