I think I must have grown an inch from this review alone. Thank you so much! I'm glad the glimpses of the early women's movement and women's ideas about education came across as believable. I do love my 19th-century women, reform dress and all.
And I'm so happy about your comment on the layers of invisibility. That's exactly it! Women's contributions so often fell under the visibility threshold, either because they didn't create facts that were considered "historical", or because they themselves chose to remain behind the curtains for their own reasons. And even if they did take "noteworthy" action, they ended up being written out of history books -- either by being subsequently declared irrelevant or unfit for public attention (not a little of that by 19th-century men).
Lily? Who were the two? I thought that Whitby may have taken the Potters and Remus and Sirius for a bit of a "Hair"-type living arrangement.
Thank you again, for the compliments and for the hand kiss!