HIST 114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Great Stink, Victorian Morality
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Working classes could be divided (really poor and better off) c. iii. c. iv. Prudes (no sex, stay home all day, read bible) Middle class tried to copy those beliefs: london as imperial metropolis, population in 1837: 2 million, population in 1901: 6. 5 million, migration from small towns, ireland, and europe leads to population increase, london is industrial center e. Several families live in same room: overcrowding and poor sanitation g. Great stink of the summer of 1858 g. i. Causes health problems (bad smells create disease: the east end g. iii. 1. Miasma (bad smells: underworlds and imagined criminality, neighborhoods color coded about where to go and who was bad, anxieties in london society, sex a. i.
