“Social Suicide”: The Scandalous Detention of Edith Lanchester

[The true story of one woman who was locked up for living with the wrong kind of man]

An early model Lanchester motor car (from Grace’s Guide)

On Friday, October 25th, 1895, a horse-drawn carriage drew up outside number 25 Este Road in Battersea, London, the lodgings of Edith Lanchester. From the carriage her father, Henry, and her three brothers stepped…