I may be able to help you learn to be a leftie. My father's teachings in the dreams helped me learn to use my off-hand quite well. I could teach some of them to you if you wished?
Generally the same, only bound by the confines of Victorian society. Except for the fact I still abhor dresses and refuse to wear them if it can be avoided. Though I enjoy it. Instead of going into the military, I was learning to become an Assassin. The principles are generally the same, though the Assassins exist in secret and wage a secret war with the Templars.