A Victorian Woman was meant to be seen and not heard. Her
life was dedicated to finding a suitable suitor to marry to. She would then live her life inside as a homemaker
and up bringer for her children. . The qualities a young Victorian woman needed
were to be innocent, virtuous, biddable, dutiful and be ignorant of
intellectual opinion.
As such pressure was put on a Victorian woman to get married
and to settle down very early I can understand how humiliated Miss Havisham
would have been after being jilted at the altar. She would have been seen as an
embarrassment and so staying inside away from the rest of society may have been
the only way she could cope with this tragic life shattering event.
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