On the screen and on the page, today we are accustomed to seeing fictional representations of women detectives kicking in doors, taking down names and sleuthing out villains. From Olivia Benson ...

The Victorian and Edwardian eras, which saw tremendous industrialization, technological development, and social ...

Introduction: Women, Periodicals, and Print Culture in the Victorian Period / Alexis Easley, Clare Gill, Beth Rodgers -- The Rise and Rise of the Domestic Magazine: Femininity at Home in Popular ...

We tend to think of “discomfort” to describe women’s undergarments of the Victorian period. Yet there’s evidence that two other words – romantic and elegant – also come to mind when talking about the ...

The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History’s newest exhibit, Drawn by a Lady: Early Women Illustrators, celebrates the talent of artists and authors in 19th century Victorian England who were ...

Victorian headlines loved a good scandal, and these women delivered it with their stagecoaches stopped, bottles swapped, and alibis that unraveled by lamplight. This set pulls together female outlaws ...

A brand new three-part series Trailblazers: A Rocky Mountain Road Trip will see Ruby Wax, Melanie Brown and Emily Atack re-trace the footsteps of Yorkshire-born Victorian explorer Isabella Bird. Ahead ...

The second act of ON THE VERGE (OR, THE GEOGRAPHY OF YEARNING) is a fairly nimble meditation on human progress. Its charming verbal pyrotechnics and flashes of comic wit are tinged with intimations of ...

In a small room, an unoccupied wooden coffin rests in the center. In another, a buttoned-up black wedding dress is paired with a dark, lace mourning veil. On a table lays wreaths of hair and lit ...

MPs were forced to respond, passing legislation which raised the age at which girls could consent to sexual intercourse from ...