Showing Love in the Time of Victoria: Sexuality and Desire Among Working-Class Men and Women in 19th Century London by Francoise Barret-Ducrocq

Love in the Time of Victoria Overturns the prejudices of Victorian London's middle class who equated poverty with depravity, by presenting and analyzing an extraordinary range of hitherto unpublished firsthand documents: love letters and testimonies from working class women who faced pregnancy alone. Full description