History Project .

Family life and employment in the early 1800's to the mid 19th century for women have been up and up to say the least but as we'll find out it's not not been without it's struggles, the experience for some involved in creating change will have been the divider and whilst explaining the basic events that accrued with reference to dates I will attempt to mention brief examples of scenario's documented for each parties, not forgetting the male suffrage bringing it briefly into the women's right of say, and the empowerment that this will have given them and how this enriched the family unit. The change in education to the health improvements not just in the home and workplace but also the comparisons similarly how the legislation's could fuel the Philanthropy and Angelic nature of the women, as perceived by these male dominated religious conceptions.1

T century's before any true visible change occur ed literate scholars such as : Anna Maria Von Schumann and her book The learned Maid, whether a maid may be a scholar; to the census at the beginning of 1800 that revealed the numbers of women out numbered the men in this country by 400,000 that timed perfectly the greats like Jane Austen: her family story - Pride and Prejudice , a best seller as was Mary Shelley's creative imagination of mans creation of the horror story character Frankenstein, all these factors act as important turning stones of Feminism and the freedom of not just speech but the freedom to be self supporting, through work and indeed as ever the home chores, yet easily convenient due to the progression of science and the necessity of the child's education and the importance of nurturing them well during early years.2

The Parliament that existed had also gone through major changes due to the vote of the people.3

There are some changes that in most quarters of the family life that still exist today with regards to the accuracy of Charles Dar wins evolutionary theory and his scientific amalgamations of man and the women. If not simply the obvious biological dependencies, after all the children will always be dependent upon there parents or guardians, as indeed the man ( the physical) would be prone to being that fatherly figure and a rock for his wife, as the wife was and is the motherly figure that tends to be the nurturing figure. The mother the supporter emotionally during early years of any child, this was deemed to be necessary for a better flourishing society, after all, the intelligence of society will always be progressive, as proved way back in Darwin's Geology's study of fossils ! 4

In comparison the women's womb is an evolved mechanism that ensures the fertilization of an embryo, a 'Vernacular' necessity of human ecology.5

As apposed to the dinosaurs who dominated the biggest part of the planet's history.6

Women were also now deemed more consist ant with there matters but in the early days would have been ideally 'frigid' and sometimes the bondage of a 'Clitorectomy'; an arduous task today, then, would have been accepted by the frail women as maybe the domination again of mans control of power, with a religious backing as then an still today an effective mode of control of most society's, don't forget God is boss.7

So if women, now free of sexual deviance (like say in man, the eunuch) then the intelligence handed down to the child would of been dedicated if not more focused. More sain ?8

On a philosophical direction of society man shared his deductions with fellow men, almost what seems Masonic ways and important for us to understand the conscience of the time, still, man, the defender. But not necessarily the bread winner; the factories ensured this. After all soon the mother work with the new materials available, desirable with possible origins of the 'spinster', spinning cotton , the wheel of minuscule fortune for the lower classes.9

The experience of working alone may well of empowered women ( never really forgetting the bondage of the past) to gain not just some sort of experience of the In's and outs of Urban society, but also the gains in freedom of speech through a discourse of intelligence gained from working outside of the family unit, dealing with other men; or the following of female fashions and the role models, Queen Victoria or the inspiring literature; the French sidings of democracy that later infiltrated  what we know now even as politics, a liberty that could later be tied with French love stories, once again another display of that 'panache' of power in literature. The new contraception.10

In 1839 the child custody act allowed mothers a new power parent ally. Then between 1870-1882 the first married women's Property act; would have both eased the harsh entrapment's or creases that existed in the wedding contract.11

During this time men excelled in scientific discoveries be it; medicine, Biology, Chemistry and Physics. They pushed the boundaries of evolution through Empiricism and this Tangible research of always measuring things.12

The amount of support of the wives and indeed the working class women; we do not fully know due maybe to the lack of documentation but without the evidence we can still conclude this as another display of empowerment for the women, as indeed the children are now guaranteed security from either Mother or Father as apposed to ( due to financial reasons) be a responsibility of the man, that is if the relationship of the marriage broke down.13

For men Katabolic( an extra amount of physical energy) , to the women Anabolic ( storing what little energy was deemed to be); an important ground working, an apparent logical foundation revealed in Darwinism by Herbert Spencer (1809-1882) a fair innings for them days.14

As appropriate in the home of an outside toilet, another fashion of the time, due to irrigation's formatting.15