Victorian and Early 20th Century Baby Farming

Eve qualified with a BEd(Hons) in 1987 and spent her working life as a teacher, specialising in the teaching of English. Alongside her career she indulged her love of social history as a reenactor showing the lives of ordinary women living various historical eras, ultimately on a semi-professional basis. Eventually, she became fascinated with the Victorian period, including becoming a Queen Victoria impersonator. At the other end of the social scale, she developed a character-led talk on Amelia Dyer, this research culminated in a presentation she has delivered to a variety of interest groups, including several family history societies, and she has featured as an expert in a BBC Radio documentary on the subject. Now retired from teaching, when she is not living in the past, she spends time either gardening or sewing, both with the ‘help’ of her little black cat.