… with any luck she’ll win a helicopter in a crossword competition…

Apparently 48% of aristocratic women from England between 1350 and 1500 made bequests of books in their wills compared with 18% of noblemen.

Carrington wrote The Debutante to express her disdain for this, where she sends a hyena to take her place at one such ball.

Women artists could not follow the career path of their male peers by becoming apprentices or assistants to professional artists.

This was made possible due to a radical reversal of conventional gender roles for the period.