Sex was also a theme but Victorian clerks often obscured ... members of the nobility and royalty, both male and female, had acquired tattoos, including Edward, Prince of Wales and Prince Albert ...

Not so for the female sideshow performers ... Ink liberated Victorian-era women outside the circus as well. Wealthy socialites, for example, got tattoos as a form of rebellion.

Sex was also a theme but Victorian clerks often obscured ... members of the nobility and royalty, both male and female, had acquired tattoos, including Edward, Prince of Wales and Prince Albert ...

The book is a cultural history, with photographs of tattooed women and female tattoo artists through the ... more hidden and historic examples—from Victorian women to circus attractions ...

Sex was also a theme but Victorian clerks often obscured ... members of the nobility and royalty, both male and female, had acquired tattoos, including Edward, Prince of Wales and Prince Albert ...

And in the 1880s, a tattooing craze developed in elite society after it became known that various members of the nobility and royalty, both male and female, had acquired tattoos, including Edward ...