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Baker Street Elementary& The Victorian Web
The Life and Times in Victorian London# 39 – The Victorian Gentleman - - 06/07/201 7
Copyright 2017, Sherwood-Fabre, Fay, M
ason, Mason
Welcome to topic number 39… Today Master Doyle and I will be
looking at what a Victorian gentleman is.
The concept of the 1 9th century Gentleman is a complex one, but is a critical part of
the Victorian way of thinking and behaving.
We are not entirely certain what a gentleman is, what his
characteristics are, or of how long it takes to become one.
…are attempting to be designated as gentlemen as a natural consequence of their growing wealth and influence.
Other Victorians — clergy belonging to the Church,
army officers, members of Parliament — are
recognized as gentlemen by virtue of their occupations…
Sir Walter Scott defined this concept of the gentleman
repeatedly in his enormously influential Waverley Novels.
Charles Dickens was an author of relatively humble origins who desired passionately to
be recognized as a gentleman, and insisted, in consequence, upon the essential
dignity of his occupation.
…it will be accepted the recipient of a traditional liberal education based
largely on Latin at one of the public schools…
…Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and so on — will be recognized as a gentleman, no matter what his origins has been.
Original Source Material for for this topic:
• David Cody, David Cody, Associate Professor of English, Hartwick Collegehttp://www.victorianweb.org/history/gentleman.html