Differences Between Social And Lower Class In The Victorian Era

There are differences in the lives of the rich and poor in every society. Today, wealthier people are able to live much more comfortably than their poorer counterparts. In Victorian era England, the division of the upper and lower class was much more extreme. To start off, there are many differences and similarities in the daily life of upper and lower class people in the Victorian era. Something they both shared, was when they were typically married. Most women were married at age twenty-five, and it was only a couple years older for the men, at age twenty-seven to twenty-eight. Mothers usually had six children in their lifetime, which was partly due to their early marriages (Mitchell 142). One difference between the classes, was that children and infants in poorer families were often more likely to die than than those born into wealthier families. A main reason was that people in the upper class had better living conditions than the lower. In spite of this, there were still many infant deaths, no matter what class they were born. Of everyone born in the 1850’s, only 40% of them would get through their childhood and live to be sixty (“Death and Childhood in Victorian England”). Another large difference was what women did in their daily lives. There was no need for rich women to really raise their kids, because they could afford someone to look after them. Lower class women, on the other hand, had to be the one to raise their kids, along with balancing a job or