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Victorian People and Professions

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Political and Social Elite People of the Late Victorian Era

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These are not really biographies in these pages. They are collections of the data needed to identify who was at social events as described in newspapers, magazines, diaries and letters at the time, and they collect information about social events these people attended. In every case, the page links to and cites other sources of biography, especially the biography pages in Wikipedia. If no biography has been written, as in the cases of, for example, Miss Muriel Wilson and Arthur Collins, the data is here for a biography, which will like result in a biography page in Wikipedia, as has already happened for Arthur Collins.

Some Social Networks

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Professions

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Barristers and Solicitors

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The men in the courtroom arguing the cases are barristers, the elite of their class and profession. They went to what we could call "prep" schools together, or with boys just like them. One might hire a solicitor, or have a solicitor on retainer, for regular, normal legal advice, as for weddings and wills, taxes and finances, real estate, and so on.

Servants and Household Staff

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Sally Mitchell says that "The most typical middle-class urban household had three female servants: cook, housemaid, and nursemaid. The cook was in charge" (Mitchell 52).

When there were only two or three servants, the cook cleaned the kitchen and dining room and swept the outside steps; she might also look after children for part of the day. ... Housemaids swept, dusted, and cleaned. If there were no menservants, the housemaids carried coal and tended fires; even if there were menservants, housemaids would be responsible for the fires in the bedrooms used by women and children. They also carried water upstairs, saw to baths, emptied slops, and looked after lamps. (Mitchell 54)

Uniforms

The standard outfit for female servants consisted of a washable cotton dress (usually of striped or printed material) with a full-length apron and a white cap, which was worn in the morning while cleaning. Servants who might be visible during the afternoons wore a black dress with a fancier cap and apron. (Mitchell 56)

In England, "servants made up 16% of the national workforce in 1891" (Poole 1993 220).

At the end of the 1890s, in a household in the Paddington district in London, the staff might have been paid the following:

  • cook £30 a year
  • house parlormaid between £18 to £15 a year
  • tweeny between £10 to £15 a year

(Baring-Gould II 225, n. 3, quoting M. Harrison)

Spiritual Societies

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Some Notable Individuals

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Charismatic Mega-People

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Folks with Some Public Presence

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People Whose Lives Were, Essentially, Private

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  • Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Jonathan Hutchinson
  • Mary Ann Nichols
  • Marion Sambourne
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