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Daily Life In Victorian England by Sally Mitchell

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Even in the middle 1860s, about onethird of the men in the House of Commons were either baronets or 24 Daily Life in Victorian England the sons or grandsons of peers, which helped maintain the political influence of the upper class. Although aristocrats, who spent half the year in London attending to Parliamentary business, were nationally important, the major local influence in the English countryside rested with the landed gentry. Burke’s Landed Gentry, which lists their names and lineage, was first published in the year that Victoria became queen (1837).

For most occupations, however, 50 or 52 hours was usual. Domestic servants and those in other unorganized and unregulated jobs still had extremely long days and very few holidays. At the beginning of the Victorian period, the largest single employment was agriculture: there were well over a million farm laborers and another 364,000 indoor farm servants (including the dairy maids who milked cows and churned butter). More than a million people worked as domestic servants. The other major occupations for women were nondomestic service (in inns, institutions, and so forth), textile manufacturing, and sewing.

Cratchit earned only half as much as a skilled worker such as a printer or a railway engine driver, but he would nevertheless be considered middle class. Within the middle class, those with the highest social standing were the professionals (sometimes referred to as the old middle class 20 Daily Life in Victorian England or upper middle class). They included Church of England clergymen, military and naval officers, men in the higher-status branches of law and medicine, those at the upper levels of governmental service, university professors, and the headmasters of prestigious schools.

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