Editing Our Mutual Friend (section)

===Status of women===
Because of the rapid increase in wealth generated by the Industrial Revolution, women gained power through their households and class positions. It was up to the women in Victorian society to display their family's rank by decorating their households. This directly influenced the man's business and class status. Upper-class homes were ornate, as well as packed full of materials,<ref name=Langland1992290>{{cite journal |jstor=462641 |last=Langland |first=Elizabeth |title=Nobody's Angels: Domestic Ideology and Middle-Class Women in the Victorian Novel |journal=Modern Language Association |volume=107 |number=2 |date=March 1992 |pages=290–304 |doi=10.2307/462641 |s2cid=54772431 }}</ref> so that "A lack of clutter was to be considered in bad taste." Through handcrafts and home improvement, women asserted their power over the household: "The making of a true home is really our peculiar and inalienable right: a right, which no man can take from us; for a man can no more make a home than a drone can make a hive" (Frances Cobbe).<ref>{{cite journal |title=Home is where the Art is |first=Clive |last=Edwards |journal=Journal of Design History |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=11–21 |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=1 March 2006 |doi=10.1093/jdh/epk002 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/agunn/teaching/enl3251/vf/pres/romanski.html ''Upper Class Victorian Homes.'' Rachel Romanski. 10.]{{dead link|date=April 2018}}</ref>