The Victorian era is the name for the period from 1837 to 1901, when Queen Victoria ruled the United Kingdom.
Historians believe that it is difficult to find a historical era that is more controversial and also reproduced in publications such as movies and books. However, it must be admitted that this is considered a period famous for many strict rules and quite strange.
Children rarely see their parents
Unlike the children of today, in the Victorian era, children spent most of their time with nannies. Children must adhere to early risers if they do not want to be seen as lazy. Many children see their parents no more than once a day, but in some families, parents still care about their children and spend time helping their children learn.
During this period, children spend most of their time with their nannies, not their parents.
Wisdom is not considered a woman’s strength
This is a view that is extremely hard to believe today, but it was extremely popular 100 years ago. Accordingly, some even believe that studying science is harmful to a girl’s fragile body, especially the reproductive system.
Lady Caroline Lamb, who lived in this era, recalls that she was not taught to read or write until the age of 10 because her parents were afraid she would have a nervous breakdown. The future mathematician’s father, Jane Somerville, also worried about his daughter’s sanity when he learned she was reading at night.
Girls don’t know where kids come from
If sex education is considered to be one of the important knowledge at the present time, in the past, girls were hiding the facts related to this issue.Writer Marie Stopes, born in 1880, once said that her mother was a wise person, graduated from college and fought for women’s rights, but her daughter still did not know anything about marriage. Marie got married at the age of 31 and 2 years later, thanks to reading, she realized that she and her husband had never crossed the boundaries of a pure relationship.
Weird beauty method
In the mid-19th century, Gothic culture became popular and influenced fashion. To make the face pale, women apply unbelievable beauty methods such as sucking on pencils, drinking vinegar and dyeing veins to get pale skin, dark lips, etc.
Fasting trend
During this period, many groups of young girls suddenly refused to eat and believed that they could live without food. Doctors at the time considered the girls’ strange behavior to be a form of fraud. Modern historians, however, are inclined to believe that the young girls may have suffered from anorexia nervosa.
Regulations on the time of marriage
During this period, it was illegal to hold a midday wedding.
In this day and age, it’s somehow illegal to hold a midday wedding. A book published in 1863 also addressed this issue. Although the book is over 400 pages long, there is no explanation for this unique rule.
