As we scroll through our social media feeds today, we’re bombarded with countless images enhanced by modern photo editing tools. But the desire to perfect one’s appearance isn’t new. In the past, ...

Kelly Marshall Most 19th-century schoolmistresses are long forgotten ... a University of Delaware art historian. At a time when women had almost no control over legal documents and played a ...

Jane Austen’s novels read as the ultimate in romantic fiction, where heroines fallen on hard times are saved by decent and ...

But his deeply satisfying “Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism” is a tribute to a set of 19th-century women who made an art of contrarian thinking. They had ...

The woman was involuntarily detained under the Mental Health Act and spent days in a psychiatric ward.