Victorian England

Susan B. Anthony at the Queen’s Court

Nineteenth Century, Victorian England, Women's Rights Activists / By /

In July 1899, Susan B. Anthony, who was nearly eighty, was in London for the International Council of Women. She wrangled a visit to Windsor Castle for the group: One  day  I  said  to  Lady  Aberdeen,  “Now  if  this  great  Council  were  in Washington,  I  should  certainly  get  an  invitation  for  you  to  call  on  […]

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Within the Golden Ball of St. Paul’s

Ernestine Rose, Nineteenth Century, Victorian England / By /

In nineteenth-century London (and apparently into the 1960s), it was possible for the venturesome to climb all the way to the interior of the golden ball surmounting St. Paul’s Cathedral in London (right below the cross). One of those who made the effort was the intrepid feminist Ernestine Rose, who along with her husband was

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