The Victorians

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The Victorians
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Queen Victoria was born in 1882. She had eleven
brothers and sisters. When she was young she was
never left alone as her mother feared she might
be murdered by one of her uncles.
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Victoria fell in love with a man called Albert,
who was German. She proposed to him in 1840 and
they were married soon after.
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Victoria and Albert had nine children. Victoria
loved having photographs and paintings done of
her with Albert and their children. Lets look
at some of them.
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In 1840 Albert died of Typhoid. Victoria was
devastated as she loved Albert very much
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December- 1861 (Reference the death of Prince
Albert)"Never can I forget how beautiful my
darling looked lying there with his face lit up
by the rising sun, his eyes unusually bright
gazing as it were on unseen objects and not
taking notice of me.  I stood up, kissed his dear
heavenly forehead and called out in a bitter
agonizing cry 'Oh! my dear darling!', and then
dropped on my knees in mute, distracted despair
unable to utter a word or shed a tear."
  
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After Albert died she wore black for the rest of
her life.
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In 1863 John Brown saved Victoria when she was
involved in two carriage accidents. They became
good friends, and she was so upset when he died
in 1883 that she never rode a horse again.
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Queen Victoria died in 1901, when she was 83.
She was buried in a white dress and her wedding
veil. London was decorated in white and purple
for the occasion.
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She was buried beside Albert in Windsor Castle.
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Victorian Life
Victorians who had lots of money loved to
decorate their homes with rich fabrics and very
ornate furniture. They also liked to decorate the
walls with paintings and photographs.
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Children In Victorian Times
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At the beginning of Victorian times, children
without rich parents would be working, often when
still very young. What they wore and what they
did would not seem like childhood to us - they
just did jobs they were supposedly suited to and
they wore smaller versions of the clothes adults
wore, or even adult clothes cut down and rolled
up to make them fit.
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Many Victorians themselves realised that life was
tough on working children. These pictures are
typical of their sort. It's interesting that most
pictures like this, published in magazines of the
times, were meant to make you feel sorry for the
children in the pictures... but not intended to
be too realistic. They very often look far too
clean!
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Children of richer families would have education,
and many other things, though their clothes were
still mostly smaller versions of what the adults
wore.By 1901, all children were legally supposed
to be attending school.The Earl of Shaftsbury's
reforms meant that it was illegal for young
children to have to work such long hours as they
had earlier.Rich children would still have
education at fee paying schools.Clothes were
beginning to be more different for children.
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Crime And Punishment
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The Victorians also had clear ideas about what
and prisons should be like. They wanted them to
be unpleasant places, so as to try stop people
from committing crimes. Once inside, prisoners
had to be made to face up to their own faults, by
keeping them in silence and making them do hard,
boring work. Walking a treadwheel or picking
oakum (separating strands of rope) were the most
common forms of hard labour.
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