Austen broke from convention to capture New York City street life through a Victorian lens — and to share 55 years with her ...

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 ...

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 ...

'The bicycle in Victorian Britain is often celebrated as a vehicle of women's liberation. But much less is known about another critcal technology with which women forged new and mobile public lives - ...

Brits are being warned about these three deadly Victorian-era diseases that are making a comeback - after a young woman caught scarlet fever at a packed gig. You might think of whooping cough, ...