Victorian England

In the Victorian times throughout England women were finally given the chance to get outside of the home. Many women began to recieve equal educations to that of men. Some women became authors. With this new empowerment, women decided to refrain from marriage, but as Walter Besant says in The Queens Reign "women might postpone marriage but nature and instinctive yearing for love will prevail."

Sarah Stickney Ellis said that men close their ears to the voice of consciousness because they have too much pride. However in Victorian times it was a woman's job to place morals within her husband. Although the husband didn't realize it a lot of the decisions they made were made with their wives opinion in mind.

Coventry Patmore said that "if a man fails it is the womans fault." This applies to Lysistrata. Women have the obligation to keep their men in check. If woman don' do this then society as they know it will crumble.

Women in Victorian England were not as ruthless as the characters in Lysistrata. Many women published their names under that of a males. They were not using excessive sexual language. They were fighting for their rights in a subtle manner to change the way their society was moving in which mirrors that of the women in Athens.