On Sarah A. Chrisman’s twenty-ninth birthday, her husband, Gabriel, presented her with a corset. The material and the design were breathtakingly beautiful, bu

An unconventional figure in an age that excluded women from government, Victoria was accorded prominence unavailable to any male monarch. Yet as Adrienne Munich

The charming Viscount does not appear to be entirely human… Miss Tabitha Windsor is five and twenty, and employed at Howick House as a governess. Since childh

Typical of the genre of literature which presented short biographies of women to demonstrate their accomplishments, this book sketches the lives of twenty promi