Two socialists, a romance, and a kidnapping
How the abduction of Elsa Lanchester's mother shocked late-Victorian Britain
By the autumn of 1895, Edith Lanchester was 24. Born into a prosperous middle-class family, she had studied at London University and Birkbeck and was earning her own living as a clerk at the Cardiff …
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