Western Civilization II / Unit 9 WC2 0823 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Middle-Class Home: Servants, Sentimentality, Idleness Feared
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The idea
Middle-class women did not work for wages, and since idleness was sinful they raised children, visited and did charity. With drudgery outsourced and more children surviving, the anchor finds a new cult of sentimentality in family life.
In practice
The Victorian family as a product of the servant.
Where people slip
Unit 12 names this culture Victorianism.
Your place on the trail
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