WYOMING, Mich. – Wendy Batchelder is a Victorian woman. She appears at nursing homes, bridal parties, youth groups, and libraries on what it was like to live and dress in the 1800s. "I learned it from ...

'The bicycle in Victorian Britain is often celebrated as a vehicle of women's liberation. But much less is known about another critcal technology with which women forged new and mobile public lives - ...