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Victorian attitudes to girls and women Women Victorian women are second-class citizens. They have fewer legal rights than men, and almost no political rights - in particular, they're not allowed to vote. By law, a married woman is the property of her husband, and her possessions - even her children - belong to him. Influenced by the Bible, many people believe that men and women are born to fulfil different roles: men to command, and women to obey men and bear and raise their children. But, in an age when contraception is still primitive, giving birth is hazardous - many women die in childbirth or soon after. On the pedestal Respectable Victorian women are heavily idealised. The main myth is the 'angel in the house', named after an 1854 poem by Coventry Patmore (1823-96). Those who subscribe to this myth see women as innocent creatures who need male protection - and the...

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