In 1861 the Book of Household Management was published by Isabella Beeton. This book was ultimately and precisely used as a cookbook and a guide for the middle-class domestic housewife. This cookbook was both a book full of recipes along with guidelines on how to manage "servants, children, dinner parties, clothing and furnighings" (Zlotnick). This book was perfect for your every day middle-class house wife in the Victorian Era. In regard to its publication, Susan Zlotnick wrote an essay in which she talked about this esteemed book.

The Dangerous Drugs Act of 1920 was an Act which set out to control the import, export, distribution, and possession of drugs within the United Kingdom. Before this Act, drugs such as heroin, opium, cocaine, and morphine were used for medical and recreational use. Because these drugs were used so widely and without proper doses, it lead to multiple accounts of drug addiction. Drug addiction in the early 19th century was thought of as a disease.

The Education Act of 1870 opened up the academic world for the lower/working classes. Before this act, only kids of the upper and middle class could afford to go to schools. It also was uncommon for the lower class kids to go to school because they were working in the factories or in their families buisnesses/farms. Once this act was established it allowed kids of lower and working class to attend for a reasonable amount of money. Now, while reading the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens I began to noitice that education was hardly mentioned within the novel.