“The fascinating lives of the women who hit hard times . . . investigat[es] the stories behind the faces in the incredible images.” —Al Bawaba Women are a
Women are among the hardest individuals to trace through the historical record and this is especially true of female offenders who had a vested interest in not
This work focuses on the efforts toward reforming women's dress that took place in Europe and America in the latter half of the 18th century and the first decad
Exploring the reform and regulation of juvenile females in the Victorian and early Edwardian era, this book presents the first-hand experiences of incarcerated
We explore why the idea of the criminal class came into being. Starting with garrotters lurking in dark Victorian alleyways, the fiend Jack the Ripper stalking