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, ...

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 portrait is oddly sexier than we might expect of 19th-century middle-aged women, no matter how modern. Women Artists in Denmark 1880-1910 offers many such surprising pleasures. Featuring the ...

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 ...

One of the most overlooked authors in the list, Mary Shelley is responisble for writing the first-ever science fiction story.

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