VICTORIAN CHILDREN
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VICTORIAN times
Life as a Victorian child
1. Title
2. Contents
3. Poor families
4. Money
5. Children
6. Work
7. Oliver Twist
8. The Workhouse
9. Thanks for watching
Poor families
Many people were poor in the Victorian times.
Families had up to six children and lots of babies so they were always very busy.
Most children were forced to go and work instead of going to school.
Some children would help out on a farm or stay at home and do the house work.
Money
Lots
of Victorians were broke and were in need
of money.
The oldest children went to work on a farm,
did all the house jobs and became a servants.
They earned a sixpence every work day.
Children
Lots
of Victorian children needed to do
jobs like help out on a farm, work as a
servant or just stayed at home doing the
washing up or sewing up torn clothes.
After they did their jobs, they were too
tired and too hungry to go and play
Work
The wasn’t that much work in the Victorian times
but people didn’t have a choice if they had a family
to feed.
Most girls stayed at home to help with the family but
they worked as nannys too.
Children needed to work hard but they were as
young as six!
Oliver Twist
A
man called Charles Dickens
wrote a book based on a Victorian
child called Oliver Twist.
Its about an orphan who escapes
the Workhouse and runs away to
London.
These are pictures of Oliver,
begging for more food.
The Workhouse
The
Workhouse was a place where you
came to if you didn’t have any job.
It was infected with diseases and was a
horrible place.
You got separated from your family first
and got put into different places.
People were so desperate to not go there
but if they lost their job, it was the only
option.
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