Two women in their 90s describe their life as Victorian teenagers. "We never called ourselves teenagers - but we were certainly Victorians and quite proud to be it", says Miss Frances E. Jones, who in 1892 trained as one of the first lady shorthand-typists.
Miss Berta Ruck, the romantic novelist, also trained in London in the 90s. "I was very glad I was an art student", she says, "for we did do things and see things and go about as well-bred, sheltered girls never did".

"They conjured up a vanished world of chaperones and horse buses, daring idyllic rides across the Home Counties and busy mornings typing stories for young Mr Somerset Maugham" (Daily Telegraph)

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