How were women in Victorian Society?
WOMEN AND VICTORIAN VALUES, 1837-1910 Advice Books, Manuals and Journals for Women Part 5: Sources from the Bodleian Library, Oxford Women and Victorian Values, 1837-1910 offers a wide selection of materials concerning the many roles played by women in the Victorian period. During the Victorian and Edwardian periods society was underpinned by rigid moral and social values; with ideal forms of masculine and feminine behaviour. Moral respectability and domesticity were important ideologies of feminine behaviour. The womans mission was that of supportive wife, dutiful daughter, and caring mother, and the womans domestic role was seen as an important and pivotal part of society. It was especially important that mothers should teach their children the values of Christian morality, which formed the foundation of society. For men society dictated they take the authoritative role as head of the household. The public sphere of society was controlled by male authority, with very little room for
