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Jane Barnell was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, [2]: 152 to George W. Barnell, a Russian Jewish itinerant wagon maker, and his wife, a woman of Irish and Catawban ancestry. When she applied for her social security card in May 1939, she gave her parents as George Barnell and Nancy Shaw.
Scholarly discussions of Victorian women's sexual promiscuity was embodied in legislation (Contagious Diseases Acts) and medical discourse and institutions (London Lock Hospital and Asylum). [7] The rights and privileges of Victorian women were limited, and both single and married women had to live with heterogeneous hardships and disadvantages.
Advertisement by Sarah Russel in a newspaper. Sarah Rachel Russell or Leverson or Levison (c.1814 – 12 October 1880) was a British con artist, businesswoman, entrepreneur, suspected brothel manager, and felon who lived in early nineteenth century London, England during the reign of Queen Victoria.
The category is for women of significance in the Victorian era of British history, from 1837–1901. It is a subcategry of People of the Victorian era, and should only contain women active in Britain or in the British Empire .
Music Hall, Britain's first form of commercial mass entertainment, emerged, broadly speaking, in the mid-19th century, and ended (arguably) after the First World War, when the halls rebranded their entertainment as Variety. [1]
Society and culture of the Victorian era refers to society and culture in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era--that is the 1837-1901 reign of Queen Victoria. The idea of "reform" was a motivating force, as seen in the political activity of religious groups and the newly formed labour unions.
His career was cut short by a scandal involving an orgy at his home where a young woman was raped. [46] [47] Adrienne Augarde: May 12, 1882 March 17, 1913 British Singer and stage actress, [48] Gene Austin: June 24, 1900 January 24, 1972 American Singer and songwriter who first appeared in vaudeville in the early 1920s.
According to the Journal of Sport History article "Flying, Flirting, and Flexing: Charmion's Trapeze Act, Sexuality, and Physical Culture at the Turn of the Twentieth Century", she made her debut on December 25, 1897, at Koster and Bial's vaudeville theatre in New York City.