Apart from the queen - who was the ideal Victorian woman? She may have resembled Mrs Frances Goodby, the wife of the Reverend J Goodby of Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, of whom it was said ...

To reassure men that women were not the competition, the ideal Victorian woman was expected to act fragile, regardless of how much drudgery she was performing. This is how the ideology of separate ...

The ideal woman’s face was like the ideal woman’s body: perfectly, pleasingly plump. Not heavy, mind you — overweight women were instructed to drink their water with lemon, and if that didn ...

Using more than a dozen historical corsets on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Gibson found that the average adult woman's waist size was 56 cm -- or 22 inches -- in circumference.

“The ideal Victorian woman was innocent, unlearned, motherly,” Johnson writes. “Women then were fascinating in their indolence. Indeed, they had to be specially trained to endure it.” ...

Watch a video on how the ideal beautiful woman has changed over 3,000 years. ... In the Victorian era, it was tiny waists and large butts; in the 1920s, ...

It was a performance of contrasts. Head held high, hand on the railing, Stowe artist and educator Polly Motley surveyed the marble staircase, reached for ...

Apart from the queen - who was the ideal Victorian woman? She may have resembled Mrs Frances Goodby, the wife of the Reverend J Goodby of Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, of whom it was said ...

Discover how attitudes to a woman's place changed, as charitable missions began to extend the female role of service, and Victorian feminism began to emerge as a potent political force.

So far the ideal Victorian women has been portrayed as a member of the middle classes, but the ideology of domesticity was also powerful amongst the working classes.