Victorian Era Hosting

Hosting in the Victorian Era Hosting was very popular in the Victorian Era . It was a huge privilege to host a tea party. It showed how organized you were and if you were a good wife and mother. You have to have everything in line and have everyone enjoying themselves. Hosting a tea party will be a good way to bring up history. You will become engrossed in the comfort with face-to-face conversation. With today’s media, tea parties seem unnecessary and silly. When people imagine tea-parties, they think of young children playing, but it is so much more than that. They didn’t have all the ways of social interaction back then that we do today. Decorate your party like England in the 1800’s. It will bring up stories and make the party more interesting. Make sure to seat people you know get along well so your guests are at their best
and enjoy themselves. They either had servants serve food or have people serve themselves buffet-style. For the seventh-grade tea party, we are having servants. It seems more professional with servants. Women hosted in the Victorian Era because it showed off their organization skills.
They wanted to compete to see who’s tea party was better. They also hosted because it was just fun to them. They didn’t have much to do except care for their children while their husbands were away working. They hosted to take a break, basically. Being a host/hostess you have to plan out everything out ahead of time. Make sure you have a guest list, proper foods everyone will enjoy, decorations, and everything you feel is necessary. Women would wear their broad and loud outfits to these parties. At the tea parties, the women would play games like croquet. They would thoroughly enjoy themselves and then 2-3 hours later, they would leave and go home. They would play many games but the mains were croquet and charades. The women couldn’t work, because they were below men. Married women were expected to have children and care for them. They didn’t even have worker’s rights, so they had no choice if they wanted to work or not. While their husbands worked, they would host parties, because they didn’t have the right to do much more. Their husbands owned
them. Hosting was a privilege for the women. If their husbands didn’t allow them to do it, they couldn’t. They didn’t have hardly as many rights as men did. They didn’t have the right to vote, legally terminate a pregnancy, purchase land, and other many rights. They didn’t have many rights, so the things that they could do was very limited. It is good that women have almost the equal amount of rights that men do today.