Quick, name a few stereotyped roles for women in literature. Whore with a heart of gold, overachiever, shrew. Victorian angel ...

That Snook nails this is hardly news. The actor won an Olivier Award when the production ran in London last year, and anyone ...

Sara Lodge, who teaches Victorian literature and culture at the University of St. Andrews, points out in “The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective” that these proto-Cagneys and ...

It's the potentially deadly Victorian disease that never went away ... of the 18th and 19th centuries and featured heavily in the literature of the time, with authors Charles Dickens, Elizabeth ...