Our girls gave received a “Dear John letter.” You know the kind of letter I’m talking about. That painful breakup that you didn’t see coming. They have moved on. No discussion. It’s over. This has ...

A selection of Victorian love letters written by the parents of a former prime minister are being published online for Valentine’s Day. The letters were written in 1843 by James Maitland Balfour, then ...

Portrait of Jane Baillie Carlyle (formerly Jane Baillie Welsh), circa 1845. For centuries, biographers have been able to rely on a priceless resource when it comes to 18th, 19th and 20th century ...

“The Sealed Letter” is a historical novel based on a true — or perhaps truthy would be a better word — story about a scandalous divorce case that rocked 1860s London. Author Emma Donoghue (best known ...

The history of psychiatry is a history of therapeutic enthusiasm, with all of the triumph and tragedy, hubris and humility that such enthusiasm brings. “Mental hospitals” were the most harmful excess, ...