The literacy rate for the lower classes was very low so, yeah, they weren't writing a lot of great literature.
So much of 19th century literature was a portrait of an upper middle class person and it would just be like 700 pages of them being pissy that they weren't in the upper upper class, and everyone was like "yes, THIS is art."
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Seriously false. Although literacy rates in the 19th century started at around 50%, by 1900 this had risen to ~97%. So throughout the 19th century, an ever-increasing majority (and it started a majority) of the population was, in fact, literate.
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The peasants, rather unfortunately, didn’t have the bandwidth to contribute
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A lot of it was also about moody people that believed destiny had condemned to sadness, even though such stories were likely inspired by upper middle class 19th century people having inadequate diets, a lack of exercise, and a lack of sun exposure.
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Welp don't forget about naturalists "depicting" the lower classes.
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Don't forget the feminist literature. In Sweden "Sara Videbeck: The Chapel" (in Swedish: Det går an/it will do) Sara and Albert decide to live together without being married. She is also working. The author Carl Jonas Love Almqvist had to leave Sweden because of the scandal.
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"I was the most desperately poor and wretched of men [...] When I arrived home, my housekeeper had lit the fire and ironed my shirt [...] Visiting my father's estate, he told me I would have to get a job...
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What about Dumas and Hugo? How dare you.
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Tbf, "most" is accurate. Zola, tho! Dickensian novels thru the HBO lens
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