Written by the researcher and broadcaster Elisabeth Kehoe, Senior Research Fellow at the University of London and author of the acclaimed biographies of the famous Jerome sisters (including Jennie Churchill, Winston's American mother) and Kitty O'Shea - wrongly blamed for destroying Ireland's chances of independence in 1890 - and Helen D'Oyly Carte, the 19th century powerhouse running the Gilbert & Sullivan companies and Savoy Opera and Hotel franchises, as well as other works on talented and overlooked women of the Victorian and Edwardian eras.