Using historical evidence as well as personal accounts, Tracy C. Davis examines the reality of conditions for `ordinary' actresses, their working environments,

Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described

Presents 35 thematically organised, research-led essays on women, periodicals and print culture in Victorian Britain.

This groundbreaking history challenges traditional assumptions about the development of British democracy and the struggle for women's rights.