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Victorian Food

Victorian food and what was eaten varied hugely at the time between the rich and the poor and this was the same for children too. Rich children ate extremely well whereas as a generalisation the poor had limited choices and availability.

At the beginning of the Victorian Period the food of choice was that which was in season, available locally or had been pickled or preserved. With the advancements of the industrial revolution however and the invention of the railways and steam ships food began to be sent across the country and imported from overseas. The choices then began to increase.

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At the start of the 19th century very few children went to school. Most poor children worked. If they went to school, their families lost the money they earned.

There were some good schools for boys, for example, grammar schoolsand public schools. Only richer families could afford to pay the school fees, though some schools gave free places to poor boys. Poor girls did not go to school when the Victorian age began meaning they had little education. Girls from wealthy families would usually be taught at home by a governess. Sometimes, wealthy girls may have attended boarding schools too.

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Poor children looked thin and hungry, wore ragged clothes, and some had no shoes. Poor children had to work. They worked in coal mines, factories, chimney sweepers. They're work conditions were horribble, because they had work long hours, almost no food and most of the children died.

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Poor families don’t usually have enough money to buy clothes or clothing materials, so they usually have only a few pieces of clothing. Most of their clothes are hand-me-downs, unlike the fashion of the rich that change every decade.Most children wear clothes sown by their own mothers, and housewives learn how to tailor from a very young age.oor Victorians buy their clothes from second-hand, third-hand or even fourth-hand clothing stores, but as long as they were wearable, they were as good as any.