Author: Helen Amy

Everyday Life in Victorian London explores the daily lives of adults and children, aristocracy and middle classes, working poor and the submerged t...

Jane Austen is one of Englands greatest and best-loved novelists, whose works are still widely read and enjoyed nearly two hundred years after her ...

In the middle of the nineteenth century one of the vergers of Winchester Cathedral, where Jane Austen is buried, was mystified by the number of vis...

How was Elizabeth Bennett expected to respond to Mr Darcys gauche advances? How was a mother meant to present her daughter to society for the first...

Jane and Cassandra Austen were the closest of sisters from early childhood. Cassandra was the most important person in Janes life; Jane looked up t...

Many poor and vulnerable people lived on the streets of Victorian cities. They were the victims of rapid industrialisation, a government policy of ...