The Victorian society is marked by Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 to 1901. The Queens forty-six year reign allowed for major changes in the English culture, political, economic, industrial, and scientific changes that occurred during her long reign. At the beginning of her reign, there were only two major social classes between the people, the nobles and the peasants. The urbanization of rural societies made way for "new agricultural techniques and practices that resulted in an increased supply of food and raw materials" (Yale) which marked the very beginnings of the Industrial Revolution. During the Industrial Revolution, the society consisted of the upper class, followed by the middle class, the working class, and the underclass (Cody). …show more content…
The family was often in debt due to John's friendly personality. Charles moved to London in 1814 where he was a student, but shorty after their arrival, his father was imprisoned because of the extreme amount of debt the family was in. Upon his fathers imprisonment, Charles was sent to work in a blacking factory where they disrupted shoe polish for cleaning boots and shoes. The period of this hardship in Dickens' life played an important influential role in many of his novels for sympathizing with lower class working people, and many child laborers that appear in his novels. These early childhood experiences formed him on becoming a realistic writer, surrounding his novels on the social conditions surrounding him (Cody). Once his father was released from prison, he send Charles to study in London from 1824-1827. After his schooling, he became a law clerk and then a reporter. Working as a reporter "provided him with background information of the inner workings of the justice system which would then also appear in many of his novels" (Litsios) where he could create a critical perception of