Article sections
Upper class:
- Royalty
- Aristocracy: peers van duke (hertog) tot baron
- Landed gentry
Middle class:
- Upper middle class: doctors, barristers, bankers, clercymen, rijke industriëlen en kooplieden, hoge officieren in marine en leger, burgemeesters en MP’s.
- Lower middle class: lawyers, surgeons, schoolteachers, shopkeepers, inn keepers, ambtenaren.
Working class:
- Upper working class: ‘highly skilled workers’ zoals slagers, bakkers, schoenmakers, kuipers, rijtuig makers, visboeren, ambachtslieden.
- Lower working class: ‘unskilled or semi-skilled workers’ zoals leerlingen, arbeiders, tuinlieden, fabriekspersoneel
The poor: criminelen, zigeuners en vagebonden.
Bronnen:
[1] https://randombitsoffascination.com/portfolio/gentlemen-in-the-regency-era/
[2] https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/status-rank-and-class-in-jane-austens-novels
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_class_in_the_United_Kingdom
[4] https://www.wattpad.com/167800125-reading-the-regency-the-social-structure-of