Victorian women lag behind men on key health and well-being indicators, a new Monash University-led report has found. The Victorian Women's Health and Well-being Snapshot found Victorian women's ...
Victorian women keelboat sailors gear up for IWD 2026, with events aimed at promoting equality and participation in sailing ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Florence Nightingale experienced her personal call to nursing at age 16 and ultimately became ...
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 ...
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- It's a classic tale following the lives, loves and tribulations of four sisters growing up during the American Civil War. The Good Company Players' latest production "Little ...
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 ...