1970: VICTORIAN TEENS remember yesterday's witness Voice of the People BBC Archive

What was it like to be a teenager in the Victorian era? Two women, now in their nineties, talk about their youth in the 1890s. Frances "Effy" Jones – one of the first women to learn how to use a typewriter and take up cycling as a hobby – remembers the life of a young working girl in London. Berta Ruck, a romantic novelist, recalls her formative years at art school and the culture shock she experienced after leaving her isolated home in rural Wales for the muddy hustle and bustle of the heart of Victorian London.

Together they provide a fascinating oral history of England in the 1890s.

This excerpt is from Yesterday's Witness: Two Victorian Girls, originally broadcast June 8, 1970.

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