On the screen and on the page, today we are accustomed to seeing fictional representations of women detectives kicking ... “4,000 working-class people in an evening would crowd together to ...

Working-class women often worked as private detectives in the Victorian era and Clara Layt’s work on the Strange Case of Colstoun House’s Smashed Eggs proved to be insightful Did you know with ...

Middle-class women of the Victorian era did leave their homes ... They could lecture working-class women on cleanliness ... ' At the same time, entering this world provided the lady philanthropist ...

Real Victorian women investigators would likely have smiled ruefully at the sexual freedoms and the stunning wardrobe of TV’s Miss Scarlet. Many of them were working-class; many were mothers.

As such, The Life, Old Age and Death of a Working Class Woman slips and slides between the tender, conversational tone of a 71-year-old man remembering his mother and that of a serious academic.