YEARS: 9–10
What was life like for young women in Victorian England?
Historian Kathryn Hughes outlines the constraints middle class Victorian women were forced to endure: to be educated but not opinionated; attractive but not vain; polite but not outgoing.
Ms Hughes describes the society in which the Bronte sisters and Jane Austen lived and set their classic novels.
Acknowledgements
Video © British Library.
Production Date: 2016
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