Victorian+Wealth

Victorian Era Who? Queen Victoria What? Victorian Wealth and how it affected fashion Where? United Kingdom When? June 1837- January 22 1901

What were some jobs that people of the Victorian Era worked for? What were the upper-class Victorian Era citizens called? Why was wealth such an important quality in the Victorian Era? Where did the wealthy eat and where did the poor eat in the Victorian Era? What were several ways the citizens in the United Kingdom used theier money in the Victorian Era?

My Research Strategy: I will brainstorm a list of important key issues involving Victorian Era wealth, Victorian Era fashion, and Vicotiran Era entertainment so I will know all of the major money spending events back then. I will also google Queen Victoria, so I know how much of an impact she had on victorian Wealth. I will research where these people socialized and how they socialized. I will make a list of key topics to include in my report, and to ask myself.

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The Victorian Era influenced the Industrial Revolution because of it's rich culture and impacting changes. The fashion, entertainment, housing and overall lifestyle of the Victorian population played a major role in the social class of the citizens. With this lifestyle, brought many changes, and with these changes brought a new way to look at this era.

If you had a very elegant variety of furniture in your home, a large house, house servants, and had many extravegant parties at your home the status reflected was wealthy. Class divisions mainly focussed on how much the family makes. Even the way people would get around was divided into classes. Based on your social class, the wagons you used as transpertation ranged from very nice to dangerous and deadly. Unfortunantly, many people did not have the oppertunity of being given a high paying job. Most workers were unwealthy and had to live in lower class areas such as slums and vacated homes. They worked long, hard hours just to get little pay and barely any food to survive. Because of these harsh work conditions, many citizens would make bad choices in their life. They would "drink away the pain". Eventually, the employed started changing. People were being risky and taking chances. They would move away from the only type of income they had ever known, just so they could try and be successful elsewhere. New types of houses, villas, roads etc. were beginning to be built. The changes brought along a positive outlook on the era, and gave people a sense of hope that maybe things would finally change for the better.

Along with the social changes, towns were changing as well. All these people had been used to a country setting, with little industry and barely any machinary. The character of Britain was being changed, which was not nessecarally a good thing. Women and children were working underpaid in a wretched poverty. Machinery was becoming the big thing, causing industrial growth. The railway was a huge change in the era, turning the urban area more rural. People realized that they could travel to very far places quicker than what they were used too. It was a good use of transpertation. The hope people had in the social changes was slowly degrading due to these new conditions of the growth of industy.

The way people exprpessed themselves was really interesting. Music was important to the Victorians because it was probably one of the only things that did not depend on wealth. People would gather at church and listen to the choir. Glee clubs were also very popular. Music was a great connection bewtween the people. It brought them together and gave them a chance to get to know people they would have never even thought about getting to know. The next biggest way people expressed themselves was the way they dressed. This, though, did depend on social class. Big, beautiful dresses for women that were brightly colored and decorated with flowers were mainly worn outside and to social events. The elegance of the dress was dependent on wealth, but any one could be seen with some sort of dress. Like what was stated in the first paragraph, social class and wealth were dependent of a lot.