Victorian Ladies and Gentlemen

This era sounds much like today, regardless of conduct, the rich were considered ladies and gentlemen. For example, Paris Hilton and Hugh Grant fit this way of thinking perfectly. What were the people who worked in fields and factories called, morans? Being a governess or a schoolteacher sounds just as bad as being a factory worker. No respect, always humiliated, and put down, what a shame.

With George Eliot, you see modern day relationship in her story, "live openly with a married man." In our day the woman would be called a Mistress and in this era she is called the "fallen woman." Already labeled as an outcast, George is really a woman, who had to use a male name in order for her works to be published because of relationship with a married man. Women today still date married men and think nothing of it. Are they considered ignorant,? No, just a lack of self-esteem in my opinion.

Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft both tribute to woman's rights, but have slightly different views of the woman's role with men.