Amazing pictures of 19th century Sydney show life for women in an era when it was a 'rough man's town' The never before seen photographs show how women of all classes were able to mix for the ...

Polish women only began to write cookery books and guides in the 19th century, whereas previously, they had been only readers. These also served as a vehicle for their own views – sometimes ...

In 19th-century Britain and North America, women were regarded as the ‘weaker sex’. Their ability to bear children gave rise to a feminine ideal based on marriage and motherhood, while their ...

A Belfast historian is calling for more to be done to celebrate and remember the trailblazing women who helped make the city ...

A fascinating look at how the marginal status of Jewish women enabled them to become agents of modernization in 19th-century Eastern European Jewish society. In this extraordinary volume, Iris Parush ...

Kelly Marshall Most 19th-century schoolmistresses are long forgotten ... a University of Delaware art historian. At a time when women had almost no control over legal documents and played a ...

Jenna Deep is an undergraduate at Dickinson College, double majoring in archaeology and history. Her historical interests ...

Though local suffrage slowly opened to women in many states, suffragists continued their fight for national voting rights through the 19th century. Mocked, jailed, beaten, and force-fed ...

Harriet Martineau was a feminist, social reformer and a leading 19th-century thinker who advised women on a healthy home ...

The Lady's Companion on Netflix is actually titled The Lady's Companion, a Spanish comedy-drama series that premiered on March 28, 2025. The show is set in late 19th-century Madrid and follows the ...