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How does dickens make the reader interested in life in victorian england ?
He does it by not disquieting.
He's writing stories about the world he lived in, and in which his readership lived. If his stories weren't become a reality to life, or at least set in recognisable backgrounds, he would not have been anything like as popular during his lifetime.
So I get interested because I feel that was closer to the truth than many more formal account books, where the authors are all too often selective in their facts to support whatever their hobbyhorse may be.
Regards
What was the publication place for the book, "Daily Life in Victorian England"?
Publisher: Greenwood Thronging (September 30, 1996)
See http://www.amazon.com/Victorian-England-Greenwood-Through-History/dp/0313294674
What is the daily life of a man like in the Victorian England?
I'm researching for a notice I'm doing and we're doing the Christmas Carol. Can u please tell me a man's daily life routine according to all the social class. From working group, poor, middle class, and upper class, what are the important info you can tell me. Or you can tell me where I can get this info from. Please lift, its due in a week!
I have no phantasy but, as Paco stated you look it up on the net.
Here is one site that I found. All the best on your project.
What was life like for poor children in Victorian England?
I was exactly wondering how it would've been. Only detailed answers. It would be a great help. Thanks.
Horrifying for most of them, unless their parents worked for one of the kinder landowners or factory owners.
Children worked from the age of about 6 years old as their parents needed their contribution. If there was no labour or no wage-earner the family might go into the workhouse where they worked but had some food. Even the Bronte children, whose father was a clergyman, picked up TB as a conclusion of poor conditions, probably at school, and died of the illness, which killed off many poor children, as did all types of illnesses and accidents which would now be cured. As many as a locality of children may have died before they could reach five years old.
Children in the country were often hungry and died of conditions associated with require of food. Food riots were put down by soldiers and many starved in Ireland. Those in the towns were likely to be in worse living conditions and had to abide twelve to sixteen hours of work a day in factories. Job included picking up scrap from under moving machinery and many were caught, maimed or killed. Inexperienced children even worked underground in coal mines, opening and shutting the doors as women went by, pulling loads of coal. These endured murkiness, loneliness, damp, dust, fear and the ever present risk of explosions. Luckier children went to boarding-school, provided by local generosity, often a church, until the state set up schools in about 1870. They left at about twelve to find work. Girls often hand home to work long days, with little time off, as maids. Boys worked on the land or in factories, if fortuitous. It was the hope of a better life elsewhere that was the impetus behind much immigration to the Americas and Australia from Europe.
If you want to get some comparison, think about conditions in many non developed countries now; progeny labour, hunger and appalling living conditions. Life would have been similar for many children in Victorian times. Read some of Dickens or Charles Kingsley, who wrote about bad conditions to thunderbolt those in power into improving the lot of the poor.
What life as a blacksmith in the Victorian England 18th century?
Well the blacksmith's would have lived in rual areas. They would have been very absorb men. Since horses where the main transport of the day. Some blacksmiths would have worked on large estates owned by country squire who would have stables on the chattels for there horses.
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