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 ...

On the screen and on the page, today we are accustomed to seeing fictional representations of women detectives kicking ... “4,000 working-class people in an evening would crowd together to ...

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 ...