What was a job that a women in Victorian times have done?
Most women probably worked in the domestic field, as maids, nannies, nursemaids or governesses. Obviously, some were more educated and well-off financially from inheritance or marriage and they had access to tutors as children. Those women could become teachers, clerks, or secretaries. Although, in the 19th century new avenues were being opened for women in writing novels, which were, by a large margin, read by educated women, but not written by them. Some off the top of my head: Jane Austin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, the Bronte sisters, Mary Shelley. I love this period in history for women because at once it seems so confining and restrained, yet through that restraint women began to become more independant ushering in the era of the substantially more independant 20’s women.
