1832 - 1901

The Victorian Age

Queen Victoria

Queen victoria was born May 27, 1819After William the 4th died in 1837, she

became Queen of EnglandShe fell in love with her cousin, Prince Albert,

and got married in FebruaryShe died at age 80 in 1901

Queen Victoria and her family Queen Victoria as a baby

The Beginning

By the beginning of the Victorian Age, Britain had shifted out of the Industrial Revolution

This shift created profound economic and social changes

Mass Migration of workers to industrial towns

Victoria set a strict code of morals and manners

Piece of Victorian art

Victorian Issues

4 controversies that concerned the Victorians:-Industrialism

-Rule of women-Evolution-British forces working to expand their global

influence

Women of the Victorian age having tea

Social Classes

Upper Classes-Changed from hereditary Aristocrats to nobility

and wealthy commercial class-Did not work, wealth came from inherited land

and investments Middle Class

-Performed mental or “clean” work-Was paid monthly or annually-Was steadily growing at the time

Wealthy women from Victorian Age

Working Class

Conditions were very poor and had little rights

Huge amount of child labor3 reform bills were passed

-Gradually gave all men over 21 suffrage

-Children under 9 years of age could not work in textile

-Didn’t curb the growing teenage prostitution

Working class family on the streets

Working class family

Average Wages

Aristocrats - £30,000Middle Class - £300-800

-Doctors, lawyers, clerks, etc.Lower Middle Class - £150-300

-Journalists, shopkeepers, etc.Laborers and Soldiers - £25

Group of laboring children

The Victorian Age Ends

In 1861, Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, died. She became grief stricken and refused to appear in public.

On January 22, 1901 Queen Victoria died at age 80

Queen Victoria’s death marked the end of the Victorian Age, and the beginning of the Edwardian age

Victoria’s funeral proceedingVictoria on her wedding day