Fagence Cooper received a BA in history from
University of Oxford and spent 12 years as a curator of the Victorian collections at the
Victoria and Albert Museum where she co-curated
The Victorian Vision exhibition in 2001. She is an honorary visiting fellow of the
University of York. As well as writing, Fagence Cooper is a design consultant and has worked with the
BBC Channel 4 and was a historical consultant for the 2013 film
The Invisible Woman. She was a contributor to Fred Dibnah's
World of Steam, Steel and Stone for BBC television, including providing a factual, historical perspective on the way Victorian lives can be presented in museums. She is also a Companion of the
Guild of St George. ==Personal life==