Now streaming on Netflix. According to Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, an author and expert in women’s history in the United States, psychiatrists during the Victorian era—or "alienists" as they were ...

The “lady detectives” of the stage prepared audiences for the real women who would join police forces and investigative ...

It’s a full-time job. So consider, if you will, Victorian woman, and the insane constraints placed upon her. If in 2017 the ideal woman is expected to stay quiet in a meeting lest she be labeled ...

Winter, Monday/Wednesday/Friday 9:35-10:25 Dr. Rohan Maitzen Henceforward Charlotte Brontë’s existence becomes divided into two parallel currents—her life as Currer Bell, the author; her life as ...

The portrait seems to play with the Victorian assumption that unconventional women were somehow “masculine.” By ironic contrast, there’s the undated self-portrait showing her full face ...

What (if any) reforms of women’s social, legal, political, or marital status were desirable ... and language—as much as on the various ways they interrogate or reproduce conventional Victorian ideas ...

Victoria feminists were asked to send answers to “why am I a spinster?” into a magazine - here’s what happened… Spinster. What does that word mean in 2019? Well, the Oxford Dictionary ...

a Victorian court has been told. For legal reasons, the ABC is unable to report many details of the distressing case, including the identities of the victim and the two boys involved. The woman's ...

Vicky D'Incecco is hand-crafting traditional Victorian footwear — in modern-day LA. It's an age-old craft that D'Incecco has kept alive in a world of fast fashion and mass manufacturing.

Police are looking for a man believed to have information about a bank scam which robbed a 91-year-old woman of $130,000. Police said the regional Victorian woman answered her phone on September ...