LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
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They could not work if they were pregnant or nursing small children.
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Women of the middle and upper classes were supposed to marry and stay home as centers of the Victorian family-but many households could not be supported on a single income.
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There were so many lower-class women in the workforce that there was no need for middle-class women to work.
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Paid work was unnecessary because the salaries of men in the middle class were very high.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The majority of upper and most middle class women did not undertake paid work except for ‘respectable’ activities like being a governess or a music teacher or even a nurse. Most women of this class were expected just to get married and look after their children and home.
Detailed explanation-2: -Victorians believed that a woman’s proper and only place was to be within a household environment. The women were expected to marry, have children, and keep a nice household. Those were the only acceptable roles for women during that era.
Detailed explanation-3: -Middle-class employment Throughout the Victorian era, respectable employment for women from solidly middle-class families was largely restricted to work as a school teacher or governess.
Detailed explanation-4: -These women had a range of servants to perform the domestic chores for them, so they usually just had to oversee them. An everyday task of upper-class women was accepting and paying visits, as well as organizing dinner parties for their friends and family.