Highly recommended!

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"...suitable for the general reader who wants a quick and easy
window into some of the less savoury aspects of Victorian life, and is well-illustrated. For the more serious researcher,
although the content itself is brief, the text is well-referenced, and together with a useful bibliography gives a very good
starting point for anyone wishing to look more deeply into the subjects and people that are covered."

Family & Community Historical Research Society Newsletter, June 2022

As featured in

Hertfordshire Life

This is a small book that looks at alternative little bits of life in Victorian Britain, looking at Child Labour, Sex & Perversion, Hidden Sexualities and Fashion Victims. The chapters are small but the book entertaining, good and quite humorous in places. Maybe a book for people wanting to start getting into learning about the Victorian era.

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The History Fella

As featured in

Yorkshire Reporter

It would be suitable for the general reader who wants a quick and easy window into some of the less savoury aspects of Victorian life, and is well-illustrated. The text is well-referenced, and together with a useful bibliography gives a very good starting point for anyone wishing to look more deeply into the subjects and people that are covered.

Family and Community Historical Research Society

I enjoyed this so much that I read it in one sitting!

A fascinating but also frustrating read.

‘Story books, romances, love tales, and religious novels constitute the chief part of the reading matter which American young ladies greedily devour. We have known young ladies still in their teens who had read while libraries of the most exciting novels. The taste for novel-reading is like that for liquor or opium.’

The way women were treated during the Victorian era is just completely wrong and it is difficult to not get angry.

I liked the illustrations featured in the book.

After reading this, I defiantly want to read up more on Effie Gray, Anne Lister and Princess Louise.

A word of caution, that this book does contain some images that people might find disturbing (Jack The Ripper’s victims mortuary photos)

‘Let men be compelled to wear our dress for a while and we should soon hear them advocating a change.’ Amelia Bloomer.

The perfect read for non-fiction and historical readers.

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