
Greg Jenner talks to Lucy Worsley about Lady Killers
You're Dead to Me
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What Do Victorians Have That Unite Them?
Victorian fears, I think, are significantly different from Georgian fears. In the 18th century, your biggest fears would have been dying of famine or disease. After the Industrial Revolution, it became aspirational for a man to go out and earn money so he could keep his wife at home. The domestic world seems much more important in the 19th century than before. It's sort of funny and awful that the prevalence of wonderful, new cleaning products, like arsenic, is also Domestic ways to kill.
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