Victorian Women - Middle Class

Women of the middle classes were often considered guides to lower class women.  They would sponsor lower class mothers and babies and would devote a lot of their spare time to helping in homes, schools and health regimes.  They would pledge certain amounts of their money to help with the lower class women's necessities.  Some of the middle class women would have servants, but they also taught the lower classes how to keep their own homes clean and tidy.  This outlines the fact that the upper class lady thought themselves far superior to the women that had to earn their living.  The usual goal of the middle class woman was to marry into money.  This would allow the women to gain more respect from the upper classes in society.