A Victorian woman will see jail for her time as the boss lady of a multi-million dollar drug syndicate – and she did it all while she was pregnant, Fairfax reports. 26-year-old Jessica Fogarty of ...

In the 19th century, “female hysteria” was considered a legitimate medical diagnosis, blamed for everything from anxiety to irritability. Victorian doctors developed treatments that reflected more ...

For all the scholarly credit shot Kinsey’s way, new research proves that Stanford hygiene professor Dr. Clelia Duel Mosher was doing it well before he was. Recently rescued from posthumous obscurity, ...

In our age of digital influencers, it could be easy to believe that building a professional network is a modern phenomenon. However, long before the dawn of social media, women artists in late ...

Introduction: Women, Periodicals, and Print Culture in the Victorian Period / Alexis Easley, Clare Gill, Beth Rodgers -- The Rise and Rise of the Domestic Magazine: Femininity at Home in Popular ...

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 ...

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