A spate of historical paintings depicting unhappy brides—the opposite of wedded bliss—have been making the rounds on social ...

Why is this beautiful woman so ill at ease on her way to ... of train travel,” says Hunter, a specialist in 19th-century French art who researches theories of time, among other subjects.

Never mind Hawthorne and Thoreau— the women of mid-19th century New England had their own ambitions for writing and life.

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

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 ...

from the 17th Century to the end of the 19th Century. These clips are taken from the BBC series The Britain that Women Made. Suitable for: Art and Design and History at KS3 in England, Wales and ...

The 19th century in the West marked the first maturity of the modern age, and artists reacted to modernity in a complex way. They partially embraced it but also valued the pre-modern past that the new ...