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 ...

As editors, contributors, correspondents, and reporters in the nineteenth century, southern women entered traditionally male bastions when they embarked on careers in journalism. In so doing, they ...

Shedding new light on the alternative, emancipatory Germany discovered and written about by progressive women writers during the long nineteenth century, this illuminating study uncovers a country ...

Exactly 130 years ago, women in South Australia were granted the right to vote. It was the culmination of a crusade against ...

Who was Anne Lister, 19th century lesbian industrialist and keeper of coded diaries?Who was Anne Lister, 19th century lesbian industrialist and keeper of coded diaries?

Old City composer and amateur archeologist Melissa Dunphy has composed a new opera, Alice Tierney, inspired by the story of a 19th-century woman whose murder at her home has remained unsolved for ...