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Dickens - context of a Christmas carol (Victorian Christmas (Prominent…
Dickens - context of a Christmas carol
Victorian Christmas
Prominent aspects of Christmas
Victoria's marriage to Albert
Christmas was hardly celebrated
1843
Henry Cole commissioned an artist to design a Christmas card
1880s
Sending of Christmas cards was popular
Tom Smith
Christmas crackers
Christmas Feast
Medieval Times
1833
Christmas Carols
A Christmas Carol
Combines all the themes of a traditional Victorian Christmas
Money
Luckiness
You either had it or you didn't
Poor
people said people were poor because of bad decisions
1/4 of Victorian Britain was living in poverty
40% of the country's wealth was owned by 5% of the population
People who were better off could have one servant
Middle- class was growing
Women
Divorce was only open to men
Divorce was granted to women in 1857
1928
Women had the right to vote
Daughters of wealthy women were educated by wealthy women
Women were forced into marriage
purely for money
immediately after marriage
Women's money was handed over to men
Second rate citizens
Children
Poor health care
Women died in childbirth
Victorian England
Dramatic population increase
1851 - 16.8 million
1901 - 30.5 million
Rich children went to school
Raised by nannys
seen and not heard
poor children
Worked from a young age
illnesses
Boys went down mines or up chimenys
Orphans had to work for their keep
Factories
Barely fed
Prior to 1870
No compulsory education in Britain
Sunday School
Provided children with the basics
Industrial Revolution
Machinery used more in factories
left people jobless
Great technological development
people fled to London and Birmingham
Families were forced to live in squalor
7 families to 1 house
London became the most advanced city in the world
Streets were crowded and over populated
No sewage system
Disease was rife
Crime
Deportation
last convict ship arrived in Australia in 1878
The poor had no choice but to become petty criminals
Women turned to prostitution
Men went to debtors prison
Sometime joined by whole family
Jack the Ripper
Never caught
Knifed and killed ruthlessly many criminals
Police were seen as ineffective
Theft and mugging
Daily basis