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EARLY VICTORIAN AGE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - workers in mine and agricultural workers
    - - workers in town - Second reform act
    - - vote to the male middle class - Great reform act
  - - - elementary education compulsory
  - - - improve conditions for children working in factories
  - - - 1839
        
        abolition of corn laws that protected landwoners' interests
    - - keep corn prices at high level to protect farmer from the import of foreign cheap grain
    - - tragic potato famine
        
        caused emigration from Britain to America
- - - - pleasunt/unpleasunt, ("the bays water omnibus")
    - - poor sanitation, four smelling, rise to crime, prostitution
    - - right to vote
  - - - railway boom
        
        1860 - London underground
        
        transport in and out the country
      - new row materials (coal, cheap iron)
      - telegraph, water in town, penny postal system
    - - cristal palace (glass and iron structure) - international
      - two museum: the Victorian and Albert museum
      - in the centre of London: Hyde Park
    - - War vs China
      - helped Italy to get free from Austria
- - - - adulteress
      - "fallen woman"
        
        prostitute
      - working class woman
      - middle class woman (angel of the house)
        
        she didn't have to go work, only to look at the children go to the church and stay at home
      - femme fatale
        
        caused man distraction
      - new woman
        
        who questioned her way of live and fought for emancipation
  - - - morality, hypocrisy, severity, sense of duty, decency, education
      - improvment of reading skills, a lot of people became literate
        
        a lot of books were print because it became cheap
    - - possession of good manners, confortable house
      - regular attendance at church
        
        with charity actions
      - working hard
      - vs
        
        poverty
        
        workhouses
        
        places were in change of food and ah house you had to work
        
        provided for: poor, orphans, physically and mentally sick, disable, elderly, unmarried mothers
    - - repression of sexuality in its private and public forms
      - puritanism