She was twenty, and she sewed for 26 hours straight — then died. London, 1863. Mary Anne Walkley made gowns for a fashionable court dressmaker. In the busy season she worked 26 hours with barely a break, in a room packed with 30 women and almost no air. The coroner blamed the hours and the airless room. No law followed. #BritishHistory #ForgottenHistory #VictorianHistory