WomenintheMiddleClassinthe19thCentury-Clark.docVIP

WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE CLASS IN THE 19TH CENTURY The nineteenth century for Europe and America has been called the century of the middle class. Growth in both power and prestige of the middle class was perhaps the most important single development in social and economic history. Prior to the nineteenth century, there was a recognizable middle class, but it was not large. With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, new wealth was created, and concomitantly the middle class became the harbingers of morals, the work ethic, and numerous other characteristics that have become part of our fabric of