The Victorian Society For Victorian society is meant the society under queen Victoria's reign, which lasted from 1837 to 1901 (Victoria's death year). Victorian society was a right-in-the-middle ripped society (i want to say that this society is ripped in the middle in a pure figurative way), because it was split in the poor and the rich, in grand public buildings and terraced houses, and in many more aspects of life. Upper and middle class were the rich people who held political and economic power. The lower class was, instead, the working class, which remained aloof to the political progress of the country and was hostile to the other two classes because of the oppression. Despite in that piece of british history Britain had an empire and London was on the top of its glory thanks to the industrial revolution, oppression was the keyword of that society, with hypocracy and contrast. (oppression is not a glorious thing, i mean) Values such work, family, faith, respectability and many more were flaunted by the ones who granted education but only for their children, making the other's work in inhuman conditions. This people were also the same which made work a lot of families for too many hours, still under terrible conditions (and safety measure were not granted, obviously), and for low or none salary. The working class, also, lived in squallid slums, with no services, crime, overcrowd, rats and so diseases. Still about living conditions, a lot of acts were passed to prevent the worst: hospitals and schools were built, services and police forces introduced and strengthen, places of entertainment made.