Donna Loftus explores how social change transformed the aspirations of an emerging Victorian middle class and the value this class represented. The image of the nineteenth century as a period of ...

New wealth had trickled into the cities during the Victorian Era and led to a burgeoning middle class says the BBC. Employing a servant became a sign of respectability, even for the lower middle ...

The Victorian era was a golden age for the middle classes ... It was supposed to be the golden age for middle class children, who were depicted as angels or fairies in advertisements and literature.

Donna Loftus explores how social change transformed the aspirations of an emerging Victorian middle class and the value this class represented. The image of the nineteenth century as a period of ...

New wealth had trickled into the cities during the Victorian Era and led to a burgeoning middle class says the BBC. Employing ...