Family budget evidence suggests that around 30-40 per cent of women from working class families contributed significantly to household incomes in the mid-Victorian years. This might have been even ...

A Victorian family, circa 1890 Credit ... Despite the title, the book’s focus is really on the working-class women who managed the heroic task of coping with an inadequate portion of the ...

Working-class women often worked as private detectives in the Victorian era and Clara Layt’s work on the Strange Case of Colstoun House’s Smashed Eggs proved to be insightful Did you know with ...

The Victorian City ... Many collections of working-class autobiographies have been published, and include several written by women. For a guide see, for example, The Autobiography of the Working ...

Middle-class women of the Victorian era did leave their homes ... They could lecture working-class women on cleanliness ... ' At the same time, entering this world provided the lady philanthropist ...

In Victorian times working class people clung to the structures of ... bread per day + 1pints gruel per day and 1oz. Cheese for supper.Women had 17 ozs. bread per day. + 1pints gruel per day ...

Describing a local working-class woman who was often employed ... It wasn’t just in real life that saw Victorian women employed as private detectives, they were also popular fictional heroines.

See the preparation of both a working class and wealthy Victorian era meal. While wealthy Victorians hosted elaborate, multi-course meals with expensive ingredients, the working class stretched ...

Family budget evidence suggests that around 30-40 per cent of women from working class families contributed significantly to household incomes in the mid-Victorian years. This might have been even ...