What Were The Victorian Ideals?
What Were The Victorian Ideals? If we ask academics to enumerate archetypically Victorian values, they might say: prudishness, thrift, individualism, responsibility, self-reliance, an entrepreneurial spirit, the idea of the self-made man, the civilising mission, evangelism to name a few. What was the ideal Victorian woman? The ideal Victorian woman was pure, chaste, refined, and modest.