Women During The Victorian Era

In the Victorian Era, women had an important role. There were different classes of women, but they overall had the same role. Women were supposed to center their lives around their children and husbands. Being a woman in Victorian England was a life full of physical and mental abuse along with a denial of progress outside of the home.
Women in the Victorian Era were mainly abused. Physical abuse or “wife beating” was socially acceptable during the Victorian times. “Wife beating” was present in all social classes but was more prominent in the lower class. In William Montagu’s social investigation Round London: Down East and Up West, he tells of multiple women in hospital: “Sometimes as many as twelve or fourteen women may be seen seated in the
Women were also mentally abused along with physical. Women thought the way their husbands treated them was right and considered normal. “Sometimes,” said a nurse to me, “when I have told a woman that her husband is a brute, she has drawn herself up and replied: ‘You mind your own business, miss. We find the rates and taxes, and the likes of you are paid out of em’ to wait on us.’” (Montagu, 1892, p.79). Women still loved their husbands although they abused them. “As she was taking her departure, the nurse warned her that the slightest additional violence oh her husband’s part must be fatal, whereupon she exclaimed impatiently: “Ah, ma’am, you don’t know anything about it. You see, I love him with all my heart.” (Montagu, 1892, p.80). Thankfully, as time progressed on there were women's rights acts but in the Victorian Era, there wasn’t any. Due to religion, men thought they had a God-given right to control their wives. Men believed that for women to lead a good life, she must follow the desires of her husband, even if it may be through physical abuse. Women in the Victorian Era were denied progress outside of the home depending on their social class. Most women stayed home and cared for their kids. Different