Victorian women choosing to duck the demands of domestic life to spend their time doing something they enjoyed is hardly a novel idea.

Now let us suppose that the placenta is inserted on one of these muscles, which is not at all uncommon, and that the circular fibres, the most remote from the orifice of the tube, should contract spasmodically, the after-birth will be enclosed in this species of cavity, as a stone in the beazle of a ring (dans le chaton d'une bague).

[…] the indisputable deed of the latter, navally regarded, constituted the most heinous of military crimes.

You will do me a service, the undead said to him.