Advent Calendar December 4th

A Very Proper Snow Lady

Two women make a highly detailed Snow Lady in West Berkshire. The photograph was published in The Strand Magazine in 1892. It was a fairly new British monthly with the first issue appearing just before Christmas 1890. In its 60 year life it published fiction by a wealth of famous writers including the very first Sherlock Holmes stories.
I found the picture on History Girl twitter account (@HistoryGirlBW) which is devoted to B&W images of life from the Victorian era and onwards.