They say beauty is pain, but for some Victorian women, beauty was death. During the mid-19th century, many fashionable women ...

Say you’re a high society lady in the Victorian-era United States. And say a charming bachelor catches your eye across the dance floor and wants to get to know you.

TONYA MOSLEY, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Steven Knight, creator of the long-running, much-acclaimed British TV series "Peaky Blinders," has a new period drama that's come to the United States.