Our understanding of the past is often shaped by films and novels, but these stories rarely reflect the full picture. Instead ...

As French aristocrats—including Cardinal Richelieu and King Louis XV—began embracing cats as beloved companions, the furry creatures clawed their way back into human favor. From shipboard mousers ...

She worked as a housekeeper at Memorial Hospital and then ... the late Fred Paul Victorian. She leaves to cherish her memories her children, Romain (Monique) Victorian (Lake Charles, La.), ...

She wore a little white cap on her head, and I think she might have been an early Victorian housekeeper.’ George Thompson, who had just retired, loved the Grade 2* listed manor house on sight ...

is ready for her close-up. The Italianate Victorian was designed by a prominent California architect in 1872, and after careful remodeling, has been restored to its original glory — and updated ...

The Victorian Ladies’ Detective Collective is back in business ... Clutterbuck believes his wife’s lady’s maid, a plain woman called Miss Smith, is the culprit. But the ladies are aghast when they ...

In Victorian London, a female detective is something ... The Role: Cathy Belton plays Ivy, the Scarlet family’s housekeeper and somewhat of a mother figure to Eliza. Like any great housekeeper ...

However, they could only afford one servant, hence her becoming the maid of all work. According to the Victorian author Mrs. Beeton, in The Book of Household Management, the maid of all work was ...

More intriguing is the heirloom’s back story: The gold locket was a mourning jewel from the Victorian era that belonged to Ms. Fein-Hughes’s maternal great-grandmother, who wore it as a ...

Dozens of writers have taken up the mantle of chronicling Victorian England's foremost ... has argued the original thesis that it was Holmes' housekeeper, Mrs. Hudson, who was the real brains ...

She was often encouraged to find work caring for children - as a governess or a nursery maid - presumably to compensate her for her loss.