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 ...
Rosie Hart brought people’s attention to the fact that even Victorian boyfriends lacked class by reading said letter to her followers. The “Skitsy” in this story is Catherine Walters, a quite famous ...
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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 ...
What did the “perfect” female body look like in ancient Greece, the Victorian era, or the 1980s — and why did it matter? In ...
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 ...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.– In the wake of Women’s History Month, the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History showcased its newest exhibit, Drawn by a Lady: Early Women Illustrators. This exhibit ...
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 ...