Tea and high ideals.

Proper and prudish—or so it pretends. But in the gas-lit world of temperance meetings and rational dress, quacks and charlatans abound—and gentlemen of science act in the most ungentlemanly ways.

From penny farthings to penny dreadfuls, refined sensibilities sit side-by-side with the new and the shocking. Beneath a façade of manners and morals, dirty secrets are waiting to be uncovered.