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What kind of woman do you become?What kind of wife do you hope to have?WomeninVictorianera(维多利亚时代的女性)王熙凤王熙凤薛宝钗薛宝钗林黛玉林黛玉WomeninVictorianera(维多利亚时代的女性)The Angel in the House The phrase“Angel in the House”comes from the title of an immensely popular poem by Coventry Patmore,in which he holds his angel-wife Emily up as a model for all women.WomeninVictorianera(维多利亚时代的女性)Believing that his wife was the perfect Victorian wife,he wrote“The Angel in the House”about her(in 1854),which became increasingly popular through the rest of the 19th century and continued to be influential into the 20th century.The following excerpt will give us a sense of the ideal woman and the male-female relationship presented by Patmores poem:Man must be pleased;but him to pleaseIs womans pleasure;down the gulfOf his condoled(同情或悲伤)necessitiesShe casts her best,she flings herself.How often flings for naught,and yokesHer heart to an icicle(感情淡薄的人)or whim,Whose each impatient word provokesAnother,not from her,but him;WomeninVictorianera(维多利亚时代的女性)While she,too gentle even to forceHis penitence(apology)by kind replies,Waits by,expecting his remorse,With pardon in her pitying eyes;And if he once,by shame oppressd,A comfortable word confers,She leans and weeps against his breast,And seems to think the sin was hers;Or any eye to see her charms,At any time,shes still his wife,Dearly devoted to his arms;She loves with love that cannot tire;And when,ah woe,she loves alone,Through passionate duty love springs higher,As grass grows taller round a stone.WomeninVictorianera(维多利亚时代的女性)Initially this ideal primarily expressed the values of the middle classes.However,with Queen Victorias devoting herself to her husband Prince Albert and to a domestic life,the ideal spread throughout the 19th century in Britain.WomeninVictorianera(维多利亚时代的女性)Angel or Slave?WomeninVictorianera(维多利亚时代的女性)Young Queen Victoria Alexandrina Victoria(1819 1901)was the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 to 1901.Her reign lasted 63 years,the longest of any monarch in history.The time of her reign is known as the Victorian period,a time of industrial,political,scientific and military progress in the UK.WomeninVictorianera(维多利亚时代的女性)Queen Victoria was painted as an angelic figure.WomeninVictorianera(维多利亚时代的女性)Queen Victoria and her family Victoria,a prolific mother,produced 9 children,4 boys and 5 girls.WomeninVictorianera(维多利亚时代的女性)During the reign of Queen Victoria,difficulties escalated for women because of the vision of the“ideal women”shared by most of the people in the society.WomeninVictorianera(维多利亚时代的女性)The legal rights of married women were only similar to those of children.They could not vote or even own property.WomeninVictorianera(维多利亚时代的女性)The role of women was to have children and tend to the house.They could not hold a job unless it was that of a teacher or a domestic servant,nor were they allowed to have their own checking accounts or savings accounts.In the end,they were to be treated as saints,but with no legal rights.WomeninVictorianera(维多利亚时代的女性)Limited rights of married women By law the wife was supposed to obey the husband.The personal property the wife brought into the marriage was owned by the husband,even in case of a divorce.The income of the wife belonged completely to her husband and the custody of children belonged to the father as well,even if the marriage ended in divorce.The husband was able to refuse any contact between the mother and her children.The wife was not able to conclude a contract on her own without her husbands agreement.WomeninVictorianera(维多利亚时代的女性)Womens Bodies as Pure The body of the woman was seen as pure and clean.A woman was not encouraged to wear any kind of cosmetics or any other adornments,or wear clothing that showed her skin.As a result,women were not to show their bodies to other men.WomeninVictorianera(维多利亚时代的女性)If women had affairs with other men?Women who had affairs with other men would be considered unclean.If men found out that their wife had been unclean in some way,they would kick their wives out of the house.In fact,being unclean was considered a generally acceptable reason for a man to divorce his wife.WomeninVictorianera(维多利亚时代的女性)But masters would sleep with their female servants,and it was considered acceptable for a man to sleep with a prostitute.As a result,men didnt have this restriction.In fact,it was often considered natural that a man might need the body of another woman.Because women had no rights,this behavior could not be punished through divorce.Thus,women simply had to accept this behavior.WomeninVictorianera(维多利亚时代的女性)Women as Educationally Unequal Women were supposed to know the things necessary to bring up their children and to keep house.Subjects as history,geography and general literature were of extreme importance.Women who wanted to study such subjects as law,physics,engineering,science or art were satirized and dismissed.WomeninVictorianera(维多利亚时代的女性)People thought it unnecessary for women to attend university.It was even said that studying was against their nature and could make them ill.They were to stay more or less as an“ornament of society”and be subordinate to their husbands.Obedience was all that was required of them.By 1881,women were allowed to sit university examinations in Cambridge University,but they would have to wait until 1947 before they were awarded 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