THE VV WAS ONCE A MAID, AT THAT MR LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S HOUSE ...

The Virtual Victorian has been a little subdued of late during the long hot summer months. But, fizzing now with the efficacious cure of Dr Robert's Constitutional Powders, her spirits are rapidly rising ... and she has been persuaded to let you peek at this rather blurry photograph, in which, if you look closely enough, you may see the face of Essie Fox when she first began her Adventures in London ~ engaged at the time as a parlour maid in that racy Linley Sambourne's house, exposed for all the world to see on the front of the Telegraph Sunday Magazine.

More on Mr Linley Sambourne to come ...