They say beauty is pain, but for some Victorian women, beauty was death. During the mid-19th century, many fashionable women ...

The historical seamstress specializes in the 1880s era ... corsets, Victorian undergarments and something called a “chantalene.” It’s like a “women’s utility belt” that clips ...

The woman in repose offered Victorian viewers an unthreatening sort of sexiness, contained to armchairs and sick beds. The Hammock, James Tissot, 1880, etching and drypoint on laid paper Art ...

Victorian audiences were introduced ... could seal the deal of a divorce.” By the 1880s, newspapers were reporting on the supposed salaries available to women detectives, suggesting it was ...

Yet in 1880s Glasgow, should the misery of a blocked ... Historic Environment Scotland – helps explode the myth that Victorian women’s work was confined to domestic service, laundry work ...

Current views concerning Victorian femininity continue to be dominated by the 19th-century concept of domestic purity and the associated figure of the ideal woman, the 'angel in the house ...

The Victorian dress in the Maine antique mall was ... As a vintage costume collector, Rivers Cofield recognized it as a dress from the 1880s — but despite its age, its delicate embroidery ...

Set in 1880s London but filmed in Dublin ... where men could not go. Real-life Victorian women sleuths were not always on the side of the angels, or of their fellow women. But they played an ...

On Nov. 29, 1880, Louisa May Alcott celebrated her 48th birthday by gifting a special copy of “Little Women” to her cousin, Lucy Ellen Sewall. The copy was a new edition, published by the ...