Abstract
Abstract This chapter turns attention from the world in which the Victorians lived to the Victorians themselves, asking who they were, both individually and as a group. It looks at the size and shape of the population of Victorian Britain, and its demographic character (life expectancy, health, fertility). It considers the various ways in which Victorian society was divided up, by class, gender and sexuality, race, and age. It then considers who we might think of as ‘representative Victorians’, using the Victorians’ own sense of their heroes and celebrities to consider what the leading figures across various aspects of Victorian life, politics, art, literature, science, and entertainment, tell us about the Victorians as a whole.
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