Rosie Harte

Rosie Harte has an eye for those illuminating details that reveal so much about the real people behind history

A New History of the Victorians Through the Women They Ignored

Victorian history, as we know it, is a story of power, progress, and empire. It is also, overwhelmingly, a story of great men. But what if that is only half the picture?<br/>
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Across Britain and its empire, women were not standing on the sidelines, but working, inventing, organising, performing, and resisting at every level. Victoriana reveals a world far more dynamic – and far less orderly – than the one we think we know. This is not a history of exceptions, but of a hidden majority: women who helped build the Victorian world, even as it denied them recognition.

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