Could anyone give me some Victorian England facts please & some on Charles Dickens too?
Liverpool and Manchester Railway opened 1830, the first locomotive-operated public line in the world. Child labor: children under 14 were 13% of the factory labor force, 2600 or so in 1830s. In spite of the publicity of the horrors of child labor in factories, the reality was that most children had to work anyway. Population growth: the main reason population increased at this time was the lowering of the marriage age, with earlier marriages producing more children. This came about as a result of increased wealth and the price and availability of food. The age for marrying in women was 25 as opposed to the late twentieth century age of 22. Charles Dickens Full Name: Charles John Huffam Dickens (early alias: Boz) Date of Birth: Friday, February 7, 1812 Place of Birth: No. 1 Mile End Terrace, Landport, Portsmouth England Parents: Father-John Dickens (1785-1851); Mother-Elizabeth Dickens (1789-1863) Education: Approx. one year at William Giles’ school in Chatham, Kent (age 9-11); nearly t
