"But what is time given us for," asked Laura, "except to enjoy ourselves? I mean a lady's time. Gentlemen and poor people are different." — Laura Courtenay in Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Gertrude (1845)
Conditions of Life
- Health care: physical and mental
- General health and life expectancy
- Nutrition
- Pregnancy and Childbirth
- The Birth Control Movement
- Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth in Mid-Victorian Hastings
- Recent Dissertations on Women's History and Health Care (resource)
- Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts — Philanthropist (and the first Victorian woman to receive a peerage)
- Florence Nightingale and Nursing as a Profession
- Female Suicide
- Education
Manners and Mores
- Dress
- Overview (sitemap)
- From Dressmaker to Dress designer and the Coming of Haute Couture
- Anti-Fashion, or Victorian Attempts at Reform of Male and Female Dress
- Women's Undergarments in Victorian England, 1850-1900
- Victorian Women's Fashion, 1850-1900: Dress Bodices, Jackets, and Blouses
- Victorian Women's Fashion, 1850-1870: the Skirt
- Victorian Women's Fashion, 1870-1900: the Skirt, Blouse, and Dress
- Hairstyles
- Hats and Headwear
- Footwear
- Accessories and Jewelry in Victorian Women's Fashion, 1850-1900
- Woman's Dress for Presentation at Court (1904)
- Etiquette
- Etiquette for the Ball Room (1880)
- Recreation
- Punch on Society and Manners — Dinner Parties, Dances, and so on
- Punch on fads and fashions — swimming, musical instruments, bicyling
- Punch on Life with the Upper Crust: the Country House
- Courtship
- Marriage
- Divorce
- Widowhood
- Prostitution
Last modified 21 July 2021