It wasn’t easy being a female Victorian scientist. Even if you got a place to work beyond your home, it was unlikely you would ever receive an academic position, or any sort of wide recognition for ...

What did the “perfect” female body look like in ancient Greece, the Victorian era, or the 1980s — and why did it matter? In ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Christine Leigh Heyrman OUT OF THE SHADOWS Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public ...

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 ...

Cote, a former PhD candidate in Victorian literature at the University of Maryland, traces the “unspoken rules” that govern the expression of women’s emotional and physical desires to 19th-century ...

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If we are to believe novelists, England in the 1700s and 1800s featured two kinds of women: those who sat at home stewing about lost suitors, and con artists. It used to be that books featured a whole ...

The HBO sci-fi drama “The Nevers,” from the mind of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” creator Joss Whedon, debuted its first trailer on Tuesday. The series is scheduled to premiere in April. “The Nevers,” ...

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 ...

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 ...