enabled her household to maintain a comfortable standard of living on incomes that were often otherwise insufficient. But nineteenth-century Americans were eager to represent the “home” as ...

By the mid-19th century, popular media depicted the “True Woman” as one who could competently manage a household, tend to the needs of husband and children, and create a pleasant and morally pure ...

Teaching 19th-century English literature ... Darwin agonized at losing “the joy of the Household,” when his 10-year-old daughter Annie succumbed to tuberculosis in 1851.

With her latest exhibition, “Fashion and Interiors: A Gendered Affair” at MoMu — Fashion Museum Antwerp, Romy Cockx shows how ...

In 19th-century Britain and North America ... The eight murderesses featured here include those who continue to be household names today, and those long since forgotten. Together, they provide ...