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Their treatment in Shakespeare's day was better than it would be in later centuries, but not perhaps as good as it is now. Shakespeare gives a number of examples of bastards in his plays including Falconbridge in King John and Edmund in King Lear. Edmund clearly resents the lower status his bastardy gives him, but he is acknowledged and supported by his father. Their disadvantage was chiefly in their inability to inherit from their natural father, even if they were acknowledged.
Children in Victorian workhouses were typically fed a basic diet consisting of items like porridge, bread, cheese, and occasionally meat or vegetables. The quality and quantity of food provided were often poor and inadequate, leading to malnutrition and health issues among the children.
For the children in the Victorian ages, they also had to do their share of jobs. Just as Men and Woman in our society do today. The children were very helpful by following in their fathers lead when they grow older.
Extremely bad. The orphanages were a sort of hell on Earth; the workhouses were forced labour camps where the poor "inmates" died quite quickly; the poor parents sent their children to steal, to prostitute themselves or to work in factories or mines even for 16 hours a day (even at the tender age of 5 they used to push mine carts!!!). As for those with a little money, they could end up in horrible institutions wrongly called boarding "schools', where they were mistreated, humiliated and terrorised, without learning too many things. As for the girls, they were not taugh much, only social skills, and married off as soon as possible.
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Who invented the Victorian workhouses?
victorian
What did they in in Victorian workhouses?
I'm pretty sure that adults and children are separate and they eat gruel:)
When were Victorian workhouses opened?
The first Victorian workhouse was built in North London in 1823 and there was more children than adults working there
How would children escape from the workhouses in Victorian times?
you couldn't although one boy managed it in 1845
When did Victorian workhouses get closed down?
1974
How big where workhouses in Victorian times?
big
What do workhouses have to do with the Victorian era?
none of your buissness
Why were there Victorian workhouses?
In a Victorian work house children, adults and elderly went to work in a workhouse if they were poor or badly ill. If they broke the rules then they would be put in a cage in a dark room, fined of even put into prison!
A fact about the Victorian workhouses?
they had lunch at twelve to one
What was education like in Victorian workhouses?
the children got taught the things that they needed. but nothing more. the teacher wpuld punish them for doing anything wrong.
Who lived and worked in a work house in Victorian times?
Workhouses were where poor people who had no job or home lived. They earned their keep by doing jobs in the workhouse. Also in the workhouses were orphaned (children without parents) and abandoned children, the physically and mentally sick, the disabled, the elderly and unmarried mothers.
What time did people sleep in the Victorian workhouses?
they woke up when ever they wanted to
