What were people like during the Victorian Era?
That’s a rather difficult question to answer,it covers such a wide field. There were many different kinds of people then, as now. And people had different attiudes and beliefs, just like they do now. Also, the Victorian era covers a wide period of time (Victoria reigned from 1837 to 1901), and there were many changes during that period. The Victorian era was a time of great developments in industry and technology, and most people had great confidence in the future, and the ability of science and tehcnology to make things better. many people became wealthy through trade and manufacture. The lot of poor people improved somewhat during the course of the Victorian era, as various Factory Acts limited the hours they could be made to work, and trade unions developed to protect the interests of the workers. Most poor people though would have worked very hard and would have had a standard of living much lower than we would expect even the very poorest people to have today. Enormous numbers of
