Intresting facts

Death Photography

A common business in the Victorian age was Death photography. Because of the poverty of most people in that era, most people only had one picture taken of them; when they had just died. In many pictures the people in them seem to be sleeping or lying down when I actuality, they are dead.

Prostitution

There are a few studies that say 1 out of every 10 women in the Victorian age were prostitutes. Oddly, the way that we think of prostitution was much differently used in that era. Any women who was living with a man, but not married to him was considered a prostitute.