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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Whether or not you’re familiar with all the historical details, chances are, you’ve encountered this ditty: Lizzie Borden took an ax And gave her mother forty whacks, And when she saw what she had ...

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 ...

From corseted waists to confidently bared bellies, fashion has always mirrored society's evolving relationship with the body. Today, midriffs are having a major moment, seen everywhere from runways ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Victorian Mysteries: Woman in White Discover the secret of the mysterious woman in white in this hidden-object game. Based on the 1860 novel by Wilkie ...