~Victorian England! What I Thought and Found Out~

When I hear the words Victorian England a few images and words come to mind.Women with big, elaborate dresses trying to have that Lolita look about themselves, curly hair, and are prissy, rich chicks.  They also keep to that old-fashioned bull of the women having to marry, bear children, and tend to their husbands, hand and foot.  I believed it to be an age where not much progressed to what we call today to be.  After doing some research though, I was proved wrong, but not in everything.Victorian England, I discovered, was an era that was shifting into the modern world.  Different artistic styles became apparent schools, and movements involving social/political and religion.  The Victorians were classified as prudes, but modest people who were very proper.

What I didn't find intriguing was that the ideal women still were the ones that needed to be married to have any recognition and tended to their husbands.  The men, even publicly, were able to have mistresses but for a women to have extra marital affairs it was looked down upon.  I believed the advancement of the change for women would definitely not be present but I guess it was changing.  The breaking of the typical female role was beginning.