The thing that struck me first as I read Elizabeth Gaskell’s North And South was how different it was from works by her contemporaries, female Victorian writers such as George Eliot, the Bronte ...

Given the incredible amount of literature on tightlacing, however, some writers, including K.M. Klingerman in her masters thesis Binding Femininity: The Effects of Tightlacing on the Female Pelvis ...

Many Victorian women writers, such as Marian Evans (George Eliot), struggled to be considered simply as writers, with no categorizing modifier, and adopted male pseudonyms or published anonymously as ...

Three short stories by female Victorian writers. Ghost stories are not about the dead – but the fears of the living. Our mistresses of the macabre, female writers from the 19th and early 20th ...

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 ...

Female authors have long been slighted. A new book seeks a corrective. ‘Eve Bites Back,’ by Anna Beer, indicts a system that for years ignored women who write and, to some extent, still does ...

Women soon began to seek a more independent life. The idea of femininity in the Victorian era was encapsulated in the idea of the 'woman's mission', but this passive role could not be tolerated ...

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 ...

The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History’s newest exhibit, Drawn by a Lady: Early Women Illustrators, celebrates the talent of artists and authors in 19th century Victorian England who were ...

Women have written some of scariest stories of all time, but they haven’t always gotten the credit they deserve. Here are 11 you should know.

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