Intense and passionate friendships among women in the 19th century were considered normal and healthy. This was, of course, before the spectre of homosexuality ruined everything.
This 1898 article is meant to make smashing sound unattractive.
Socrates was accused of not worshiping the right gods and of corrupting Athenian youth by teaching them logical thinking. Regardless of era, the problems of being out of one’s own time are the same.
Newspaper article from the New Zealand Herald regarding the murder of Polly Mayos. OCR scanned and corrected.
Itinerant workers/hawkers during their stays in London in the 1870s