ABSTRACT
The women of this study are more than stereotypical “Mrs. Professor Fogeys”. Their lives, works and texts exhibit both the self-fulfilment science could bring to women's lives and the important contributions they made to their field. Gatty, North and Ormerod re-imagined themselves in roles that broke away from those stipulated for women by Victorian gender norms and encouraged others to see them in this new light. Interestingly, these women's physical images, artistic and photographic, reflect the struggles and tensions that existed between notions of the ‘ideal’woman and the real-life woman.
