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When imagining the Victorian Age, royalty, fancy lifestyles, and elaborate living often come to mind. However, during this same era, other lifestyles and conditions of a completely different nature were occurring. Many of the English people lived in poverty. Charles Dickens, one of the great writers of this period, described how it was to live during the Victorian Era. Although England grew from an agricultural to an industrial society, not all citizens benefited from this change. In addition, the undesirable health and medical environment plagued both the wealthy and the poor.
Charles Dickens was a profound British writer who composed novels, short stories, dramatic works, poetry, and essays (“Charles Dickens” 1). He was born on February 7, 1812 in Portsmouth England where he was the second of eight children (Perdue 1). His father John was a minor government official as a clerk in the Navy Pay Office: he was then transferred to Somerset House in London. The family moved to Chatham in the Medway Valley, where Charles experienced the most glorious part of his childhood (Perdue 1). After moving back to London, John Dickens had a tendency to live beyond his needs, spending all
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Many experiences in an author’s life usually impact upon their style of writing. There were many generalities made as to why certain people would get ill, or how to keep him or herself from getting sick. Apothecaries went through a five-year apprenticeship, which included six months of hospital work.
Roughly two years later, he met Catherine Hogarth the daughter of newspaper editor George Hogarth. Rural people usually lived longer then city dwellers: the upper classes were healthier and lived longer then the lower working classes. Their love for each other failed deeply from what he thought was their difference in social classes. The attitude toward education and schooling was very negative, which did not help in the family life. Some said that members of the upper class could not digest all the coarse foods that the working people ate. Medical schooling was not very widespread, so the way people learned was from someone already in the field.
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