Mistress of Disguise

The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective: Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime

By Susannah Stapleton

From the April 2019 Issue

Stitches in Time

Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

By Clare Hunter

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Lost in Elizabeth

Mrs Gaskell and Me: Two Women, Two Love Stories, Two Centuries Apart

By Nell Stevens

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Class Myths

Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age

By Carolyn Steedman

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Blazing Their Own Trails

In Byron’s Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron’s Wife and Daughter, Annabella Milbanke & Ada Lovelace

By Miranda Seymour

From the February 2018 Issue

Wagon Lit

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

By Caroline Fraser

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Austenmania

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Broad Church

In the Days of Rain: A Daughter, a Father, a Cult

By Rebecca Stott

Priestdaddy: A Memoir

By Patricia Lockwood

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Look into My Eyes

The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound

By Wendy Moore

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Last Light

Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies

By Ross King

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Physician, Conceal Thyself

Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time

By Michael du Preez & Jeremy Dronfield

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No Mary Poppins

Other People’s Daughters: The Lives and Times of the Governess

By Ruth Brandon

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From the August 2007 Issue

Upstairs, Downstairs

Mrs Woolf and the Servants: The Hidden Heart of Domestic Service

By Alison Light

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From the June 2007 Issue

A Family Affair

The Mistress’s Daughter: A Memoir

By A M Homes

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Shenanigans at Sixty

No! I Don’t Want to Join a Bookclub

By Virginia Ironside

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From the June 2006 Issue

Upstairs, Downstairs

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By Giles Waterfield

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From the April 2006 Issue

Of Barons and Butchers

The Sunlight on the Garden: A Family in Love, War and Madness

By Elizabeth Speller

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From the February 2006 Issue

The Bright Incongruity of It All

Gone to New York: Adventures in the City

By Ian Frazier

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From the November 2005 Issue

A Matter of Taste

The Pineapple: King of Fruits

By Fran Beauman

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From the October 2005 Issue

Still Cooking Up A Storm

The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton

By Kathryn Hughes

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