But, whilst it is difficult to talk of the Victorian middle-class as a group with a coherent outlook, they nevertheless gained coherence out of the political and social changes of the period.

The Victorian era is an extremely popular period in fiction, ... where Britain suffers under brutal class divisions, keeping the rich at the top and the working class stuck in poverty.

The population of towns and cities rapidly increased in the Victorian period as people moved to find work. Working class people often lived in cramped, back-to-back terraced housing close back-to ...

They could lecture working-class women on cleanliness in homes resembling slums, while they relied on servants to keep their own homes up to the required standard. Next Previous. Published: 2001-08-09 ...

A time of high unemployment and great hardship among London’s working class led to the 1886 West End Riots, where masses of people took to the streets, smashing storefronts and destroying property.

The working class faced brutal living conditions, with little access to clean water, food and sanitation, and with very little opportunity to improve their lives.

The Victorian middle-class is largely associated with the growth of cities and the expansion of the economy. The term was used from around the mid-eighteenth century to describe those people below ...