what was england like in the 1800s??

Question

what was life like if your family was poor?
what was life like it your family was upper class and very important?
what did the men do for a living?
what did the women do?
was there musical stuff, like music (kinda like bach, mozart beetovhen) concerts and opera kinda things??
if you have any knowledge about england in the 1800s PLEASE share!!!
:)
im really clueless!

Oh! and what occupation did men in the HIGH class do??
and also,
what kind of wars were there?

Answer 1

WOMEN: if you want to know about what rich women did you can read up on the bronte sisters or george elliot books. basically women were supposed to be beautiful and graceful, paint, sing, and play an instrument. her duties were limited to household affairs and her main occupation was to keep the house and family life homely and harmonic - she was supposed to be the "angel in the house" (this image is often satired in bronte's books; they challenged the social conventions by creating independent, free-spirited protagonists). so basically her life was comfortable but also could be very boring and she had no rights whatsoever. once she was married all her property belonged to her husband. only very few rich women could get divorced, but even that was extremely unconventional. it was probably nice to be rich if you had a nice husband but if he turned out to be horrible then you were stuck with him for life.

RICH MEN usually had land or houses out in the country so they had tenants or like workers and farmers who took care of their land. mostly they would have an accountant who managed all the business work for them. so when they wernt spending money and being highsociety ppl in london they were out in the country with their friends hunting in the woods (that was their equivalent for doing sports), all the rich ppl went to london for a few months where they met all the other rich ppl and hung out, and then spent the rest of the year out in their country mansions.
but there were a few self made men who got rich because of the industrial revolution, the had factories and so they spent their time managing that. they were not part of the upper class as such.. they were wealthy but still part of the middle class so they were not of noble blood like all the aristrocrats and high society ppl who had inherrited all their money.

POOR PEOPLE had to work in the factory probably for like 10hrs a day and 6-7 days a week. and whole families lived crammed up in tiny rooms. women usually had at least 5 kids, they could also work in a factory to make more money for the family. A lot of kids didnt even make it past 10, they died of tuberculosis or other diseases, also due to poor nutrition and bad living conditions. if you want to read up on that charles dickens writes about the victorian lower class.

here is an trivial fact: ppl that were richer were usually taller than the working class ppl, so it was generally believed that god made it that way to distinguish the upper class from the lower class, height relfected social class. BUT acutally it was just because of the nutrition, upper class ppl always had food on the tabel whereas lower class ppl had very little to eat. so that had an effect on their growth of course. - pretty interesting huh?

p.s. i know my spelling is atrocious sorry :)

Answer 2

England In The 1800s

Answer 3

Read Anthony Trollope (April 24, 1815 – December 6, 1882), the Warden, the barrister and whatever the third is in the series. I loved them. I think they may give you an idea.

There are different ages as many other people have said ... most notably the Victorian era. However, I suggest you get a copy on DVD of different movies of that era and watch the bonus features. That's what I do.

England changed so quickly. In the beginning there was slavery, in the end there was Imperialism. (Well, maybe not a lot of change there---it depends on how you look at it).

In the beginning Technology was rough and directed toward industry ... in the end, the Middle class was booming because of the empire. Technology was world wide---the auto, the phone ...

In the suggestion of reading novels, England does go through a romantic period during that time and the stories reflect that.

Answer 4

19th century England experienced massive changes. A historian noted that a mans lifestyle in 1800 was quite similar to a Roman Legionnaire, while a man in 1899 had a lifestyle quite similar to ours with Cars, Telephones, and Movies.
The population exploded from 8 million in 1800 to 30 million in 1899, with massive emigration as well.
If you were poor in 1800 you would have worked on a farm, or in a cottage industry, in 1899 you would have worked in a factory or emigrated to other parts of the Empire.
The upper class experienced a decline in influence as the country changed from Agricultural to Industrial.
The Culture underwent a dramatic transformation from Neoclassical Enlightenment-ism to the Gothic Conservatism. The British Empire expanded to covering a quarter of the worlds land and population.

Answer 5

I can't answer all your questions here, but the website sourced below can.
Here is an excerpt:


Mr. Matthew Crabtree, called in; and Examined:

What age are you? — Twenty-two.

What is your occupation? — A blanket manufacturer.

Have you ever been employed in a factory? — Yes.

At what age did you first go to work in one? — Eight.

How long did you continue in that occupation? — Four years.

Will you state the hours of labour at the period when you first went to the factory, in ordinary times? — From 6 in the morning to 8 at night.

Fourteen hours? — Yes.

With what intervals for refreshment and rest? — An hour at noon.

When trade was brisk what were your hours? — From 5 in the morning to 9 in the evening.

Sixteen hours? — Yes.

With what intervals at dinner? — An hour.

How far did you live from the mill? — About two miles.

Was there any time allowed for you to get your breakfast in the mill? — No.

Did you take it before you left your home? — Generally.

During those long hours of labour could you be punctual; how did you awake? — I seldom did awake spontaneously; I was most generally awoke or lifted out of bed, sometimes asleep, by my parents.

Were you always in time? — No.

What was the consequence if you had been too late? — I was most commonly beaten.

Severely? — Very severely, I thought.

In those mills is chastisement towards the latter part of the day going on perpetually? — Perpetually.

So that you can hardly be in a mill without hearing constant crying? — Never an hour, I believe.

Answer 6

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RE:
what was england like in the 1800s??
what was life like if your family was poor?
what was life like it your family was upper class and very important?
what did the men do for a living?
what did the women do?
was there musical stuff, like music (kinda like bach, mozart beetovhen) concerts and opera kinda things??
if you have any...

Answer 7

Charles Dickens portrays life in 19th century England: the poverty, the sweat shops, the miserable lives of orphans. Oliver Twist is a classic novel which portrays all that and more.

Answer 8

You are talking about one of the greatest periods of change in society in England. You need to pin the period down to a decade or twenty years.

Answer 9

1) England was very cool in the 1800's
2) If you were poor life sucked, much like today
3) If you were upper class you were well off, and you most often wore white wigs. Hence, you were important and looked gay.
4) Men did various things such as working.
5) Women did the necessities that the men did not do. See Question 4 to pinpoint what the men did.
6) Musical stuff existed.

Easy as pi

Answer 10

There were wars.