Romeo Juliet

Victorian Times

Victoria was born in 1819 in Kensington Palace in London. Her name was Alexandrina Victorian. When Princess Victoria was 18 years old her uncle King William died and she became queen. She was crowned at Westminster Abbey in 1838. Victoria married her handsome cosine Albert a young prince from Germany. Albert didn’t speak English very well and lots of people didn’t like him.

The Victoria became notorious for employing young children in factories and mines and as chimney sweeps. Children were expected to help towards the family budget, often working long hours in dangerous jobs and low wages. Many children got stock in the chimneys that they were sweeping and eventually died.

In factories it was not uncommon for children to lose limbs crawling under machinery to pick things up. Children of poor families would leave school at age of eight and then forced to go to work. School was not free at that time.

The reason for these children to work was the family was poor or they were orphan. Lots of orphans worked at workhouse to earn bit of many. There parents starved for food and eventually died. So children had no care, no choice, just work, work, and work.

Dickens life

Charles Dickens was raised in poor conditions Charles was born 1812, his father worked for the Navy pay office, as Charles got bigger he attended to school near home, that was not a problem the many they had to pay was little. Charles had a new life in London now he was not earning much but at least to keep him on his feet. Later in life when Charles was twenty his father and his five brothers also a sister also his mother was arrested for depute and later was in prison called Marshals.

Charles visited his family regularly in the prison and never forgets his experiences about misery. Charles promised himself not make the mistake as his father did, so he thought not to make life worse for himself. So that meant he had to make his own way of life. Charles did not know how...