The Victorian Household

The Victorian middle and upper classes kept live-in servants who performed their housework for them.  The number and type of servants employed depended on the wealth and social position of the family.   In a society with great gaps among the rich and poor nowhere was this more evident than in the food they ate.   

Victorian Households

Written by Kat.

The upper and middle class Victorian households are too elaborate and it isn’t fair.[1] The factory workers and others from the working class work long hours and get barely any breaks and when they get home their house is small cramped and bug infested. While the factory workers are working hard to make enough money to feed there children, the upper class people are lounging in their fancy beds and morning rooms.[2] They do nothing all-day and so why do they deserve to live such luxurious lifestyles? It is the working people who deserve to be honored by such fancy homes. The upper class has more then enough money. They use it for pointless comfort items such as patterned carpet or overstuffed armchairs.

They live a safe life and their children can enjoy their child hood.  Factory workers have their life threatened everyday with big machines and being beaten if they’re late to work. Working in a factory is a dangerous job. Factory workers must send their kids to work at an early age to help support the family. I started my first job when I was seven years old. Children from the upper class go to school and don’t have to worry about the same things that our children do. Life for a child should be fun and free. They shouldn’t have to worry if they are going to eat tonight or not.

Victorian households of the rich are decorated with rich things such as pictures, statues, rugs of all kind, and lots of mirrors.  Their houses are crowded with tables and writing desks. The food on one of their tables would feed my family for a year. There are stained glass windows all around the house. They’re lots of rich things included in the houses[3]. The décor is rich in gold and lots of “comfort clutter.” [4]   The rich upper class have really fancy elaborate houses while the working class has old houses and barely enough money to feed their families.