What do you do when you have a cause you care about, but no vote, no representatives in the corridors of power, and the men around you just won't take you seriously? Victorian women like Elizabeth Fry used the press, and the clout the publicity gave them, to help bring about the reforms they believed in.
Martha Kearney talks to two historians of the Victorian era about how these women philanthropists used their celebrity: Deanna Matheuszik from Vanderbilt University, Tennessee and Clare Midgley from Sheffield Hallam University. |
