1. Victorian Women An Age of Paradox

2. Legal Status Married women subordinate Matrimonial Causes Act (1857) –Divorce through courts instead of Parliament Widows and unmarried women less so

3. Cult of Domesticity

4. Mrs. Beeton

5. Class Roles Matter Aristocracy Middle Classes Crinoline (Hoopskirt)

10. Mythbusters 30% unmarried by age 35 More than 50% worked outside the home Many different occupations Largest group: servants

11. Florence Nightingale 1820-1910

12. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, MD 1836-1917

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

14. Queen Victoria