The Janus Club
Victorian women knew their place in life, to be there to for their husbands, few ever expected to have to give themselves to THE CLUB . Victorian England in the 1880;s was a man’s world, where a wife ” knew her place”, especially in the Gentlemens Clubs around the Mayfair and Knightsbridge areas of the city. No woman ever entered the hallowed domains of these clubs, with the exception of the fairly inconspicuous Janus Club situated in a row of the 4 older four story houses in Randolph Mews. The Janus Club welcomed women on the last Saturday night of each month , members Wives, Mothers , Daughters, in fact any female FAMILY member over the age of 15 was welcome ,as long as they were there to pay the outstanding gambling debts the member …