Anna Davis - Women in the Victorian Period

The figure of women has tiltd during the history, and in a young certain Victorian Britain it started to assume a new important affair. As Anna Davin shows in her journal promulgated in 1978, which includes a serial of different point of draw of the main characters of the Victorian finale (1837-1901), the figure of the woman started to ware a signifi stick outt role think to the word maternal quality and related to the Empire. In 1883 the run into of Motherhood started to be related with the imperium. It is important to say that in this consummation the role of the conglomerate was really crucial, and it was celebrated in a number of way, for illustrate with the Great Exhibition in 1851 or the Diamond Jubilee in 1897, where the greatness of the Queen and of her rule was celebrated. There was a change in the opinion of the people, who this instant thought that it was a affaire of the state to subjoin the population, because the children of straightaway are the chil dren of tomorrow(p. 43). Before this period , as Charles Kingsley said in 1858, on that point was another get a line on the increase of the population, it was seen as dangerous, it could have brought to the decline of the community(p.10). barely after 1883 and especially because of the depression Boer War in 1880 and 1881, there was a shift somewhat the opinion on the increase of population, because more children meant more soldiers in the future and the construction of a new imperial race. Imperialism was a civilizing mission of the white man, that was superb to the black or embrown people, the native inhabitants of their colonies, from which the reign draw lot of advantages.\nThe author shows the new importance that motherliness fake during this period of imperialism. From now motherhood is a matter of the state, which can intervene if it is not through in the right way. In 1890 in Victorian Britain leaflets intimately baby care started to be distributed, because at thi s time the infant mortality was really high. The empire blamed mothers for the high...