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Victorian Society and the Class System explores the complex social hierarchy that shaped everyday life in nineteenth-century Britain. From the immense wealth and influence of the aristocracy to the ambitions of the expanding middle class, the discipline of respectable workers, and the struggles of the urban poor, this volume examines how class determined opportunity, behavior, education, employment, housing, and social identity.
The book reveals the hidden world of domestic servants, the importance of manners and respectability, the Victorian obsession with self-improvement, and the constant fear of poverty and the workhouse. It also examines philanthropy, social mobility, trade unionism, political reform, and the conflicts that gradually challenged traditional hierarchies.
Through the lives of aristocrats, professionals, shopkeepers, clerks, workers, servants, reformers, and the destitute, Victorian Society and the Class System presents a detailed portrait of a society caught between inherited privilege and rapid modernization. It is the story of how wealth, status, ambition, and inequality shaped Victorian Britain—and how the pressures of industrialization and democracy began transforming the class system that had defined British life for generations.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length9 hrs 23 mins
Narrated bySantiago Machain
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateAug 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
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