Lost in Elizabeth

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

By Nell Stevens

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From the February 2008 Issue

Class Myths

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

By Carolyn Steedman

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From the March 2018 Issue

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

From the July 2017 Issue

Austenmania

From the June 2017 Issue

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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From the April 2017 Issue

Look into My Eyes

The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound

By Wendy Moore

From the September 2016 Issue

Last Light

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

By Ross King

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From the August 2016 Issue

Physician, Conceal Thyself

Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time

By Michael du Preez & Jeremy Dronfield

From the March 2008 Issue

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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From the September 2006 Issue

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

Markham Thorpe

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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From the August 2005 Issue

She Had Bugs to Pin

Discovering Dorothea: The Life of the Pioneering Fossil-hunter Dorothea Bate

By Karolyn Shindler

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From the May 2005 Issue

A Pioneer in Pantaloons

Lady Hester: Queen of the East

By Lorna Gibb

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