The concept is intriguing, and fans of Virginia Woolf’s classic 1928 novel Orlando may find many parallels between the two works, as both books’ main characters make gender transitions in order to challenge gender roles.
However, in Sarah Waters’s novel Tipping the Velvet, gender roles and other societal expectations of the Victorian time period are flipped on their heads when she writes queer characters who are free to live uncloseted, gender bend, and go to gay and lesbian bars without fear of being ostracized or -worst of all-imprisoned for “sexual deviance.” What comes to your mind when you think of Victorian England? Confining corsets and waist coats? Strict moral codes? Chimney sweeps? All true.
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