What are some facts about rich Victorian children?

Life for Victorian Children in Victorian times (1830 to 1900) was nothing like childhood in today’s world. For the wealthy there was an overwhelming sense of boredom and the constant prodding to be proper and polite with very little parent to child communication. read more

Some were lonely, some were mistreated. This was an era of hands-off parenting for most of the wealthy and the nobility, and thus the quality of a child’s life depended entirely on whether his/her nurses and governesses were kind, caring, and conscientious. read more

Some poor children wore second-hand boots or shoes, nicknamed 'translators'. One Victorian slang word for 'children' was 'chavy'. For parties, lots of little Victorian girls wore red cloaks - perhaps because Little Red Riding Hood was a favourite nursery story. read more