With that in mind, we decided to explore how legendary women of the 19th century were portrayed, comparing artistic paintings with early photographs to reveal how beauty ideals were ...

#Tradwife Influencers Totally Misunderstand the Lives of 19th Century Women. 8 minute read. Fox cottage was the family home of the Fox sisters, who started the Spiritualist movement of the mid-1800s.

Works like Tissot's The Convalescent (1872), pictured here, reflect a sense of unease over a modernizing society that was sweeping women up in its fray. Art Gallery of Ontario. Gift of R.B.F. Barr ...

A circa 1825 sampler made by Ann E. Kelly at Leah Maguire's school in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Kelly Marshall. Most 19th-century schoolmistresses are long forgotten, but Leah Maguire of ...

'Daring Women Doctors: Physicians in the 19th Century' is currently available to rent, purchase, or stream via subscription on Amazon Video, Kanopy, and Hoopla . Popular Documentary Movies.

Taking a broad view of 19th-century US manufacturing data, Chicago Booth’s Richard Hornbeck and a team of fellow researchers were able to study a relatively small-scale phenomenon: women’s ownership ...

Nancy Vo uses spare language and lonely images of the 19th-century frontier in “The Runaway,” a picture book for 4- to 8-year-olds. Ms. Vo sets the scene with a series of faded, distempered ...

In “Bright Circle,” Randall Fuller shines a light on the women behind — and before — the male philosophers of 19th-century Massachusetts.