The Road Less Traveled: England’s Infamous Highwaywomen

By | February 23rd, 2025|Categories: famous women, Victorian culture, Women's History|Tags: , , , , , |

Author: Christine Skirbunt March is Women’s History Month and, while we sing the praises of an often-well-known repertoire of already famous woman, Women’s History Month includes the history of some lesser-known-but-no-less-important infamous women. Women who defied their times and stood their ground outside of traditional norms. Thus enter the English Highwaywomen. While highwaymen are among the [...]

Agnes Marshall: The Victorian Queen of Ices

By | August 15th, 2024|Categories: famous women, Victorian culture|

Imagine a sweltering summer day in Victorian England. It is not a difficult stretch of the imagination today as we push through August, but in the 19th century, with the burden of heavy clothing and without the convenience of air conditioning, relief was more difficult to find than today. One of the joys were street vendors [...]