Kathryn Hughes
Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth-Century Britain by Lucy Lethbridge - review
Throughout the 20th century a veritable bustle of young middle-class women went under cover to investigate life as a domestic servant. Donning caps, dropping their aitches and secreting a small notebook in their pinnies, these journalists and social inves
Diana Vreeland by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart - review
The self-styled empress of fashion who told American women how to dress was a plain girl who re-invented herself There's an early moment in Funny Face , the 1957 Stanley Donen musical, when Kay Thompson, playing a New York fashion editor, bursts into
Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England by Neil McKenna - review
A world of 'lush longing for embroidered handkerchiefs and soft kisses' is interrupted by a police campaign to achieve the downfall of the cross-dressing pair Fanny and Stella in pictures In 1870, two tatty-looking girls were hauled before Bow Street m
