Women in the Victorian had a wide variety of occupations. These included lodging house keepers, tea sellers, dressmakers, milliners, toy dealers, grocers, fishmongers and china dealers, to name but a few. In Lavinia, Sophy is a milliner—a highly skilled trade, with an apprenticeship of many years’ duration. In addition to superb mechanical skills, a successful milliner had to have an unerring eye for colour, decoration, and the ability to match a hat with a face.

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Amanda, her sister and mother must establish their business, Wentworth Optometry Services, in a new town and a new country. Sebastian Montgomery hired the services of their company to work in conjunction with his pharmacy.

He has a traditional view of women, and was unaware he would be dealing with a family of females. Amanda insists the contract is with Wentworth Optometry Services, and not any particular individual.

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With the invention of the telephone and telegraph, it was no longer necessary to have an office attached to its manufacturing site. Instead, the business office could be located in a town or city which offered immediate access to legal and banking...