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Diverse Perspectives of Victorian Women: Views, Aims, and Aspirations

Explore the varying viewpoints, goals, and ambitions of women during the 19th century in this comprehensive inquiry. Lessons cover topics such as separate spheres, women's limitations, and the campaign for women's suffrage. The outcome activity prompts an extended answer on the impact of divided Victorian women on the suffrage movement.

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Diverse Perspectives of Victorian Women: Views, Aims, and Aspirations

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  1. Enquiry 5To what extent did women have different views, aims and aspirations throughout the nineteenth century?

  2. Enquiry overview Lesson 1: Were all Victorian women the same? Lesson 2: What if you had to work? Lesson 3: Step by step Lesson 4: Did all women want the vote? Lesson 5: How did women get the vote? Outcome activity: Write an extended answer as to how divided Victorian women were and its impact on the campaign for women’s suffrage.

  3. Lesson 1Were all Victorian women the same?

  4. Lesson 1 overview • Content covered in the lesson: • Victorian women. • Separate spheres. • What women could and couldn’t do.

  5. Victorian women Q:What have they got in common? Q: What differences are there?

  6. Separate spheres At the start of the twentieth century, men and women had very different lives. Activity 1: What impact would the idea of ‘separate spheres’ have had on the lives of women?

  7. To what extent did women have different views, aims and aspirations throughout the nineteenth century? Activity 2: What women could and couldn’t do Your challenge is to research answers to the questions opposite. • Tasks: • Growing up, who made decisions about a woman’s money, wealth and life? • As a married woman, who made decisions about her money, wealth and life? • As a widow, who made decisions about her money, wealth and life? • What if she wanted an education? A job? A divorce? • What did the law say about women? • How easy was it to not conform to what society expected of a woman?

  8. What women could and couldn’t do Not the vote only, but what the vote means – the moral, the mental, economic, the spiritual enfranchisement of Womanhood; the release of women, the repairing... of womanhood... Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence; ‘The Faith That is in Us’ ,1908 Activity 3: Q: Why does Emmeline Pethick- Lawrence want the vote? Q: What does that tell us about the status of women in Victorian Britain?

  9. To what extent did women have different views, aims and aspirations throughout the nineteenth century? Plenary: Were all Victorian women the same? Review what you have discovered during this lesson and decide whether you agree that all Victorian women were the same. Married? Single? Rich? Poor? Working? Leisured? Healthy? Poorly? Famous? Unknown?

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