Kadambini Ganguly defied 19th-century norms to become a doctor — saving lives till just 15 minutes before her death.

George Eliot’s Middlemarch and I have had a difficult relationship. Forty-five years ago, having just passed my entrance exam, I went up to Cambridge in the snow-engulfed Winter of Discontent to ...

Author April White on 19th-century socialites who revolutionized marriage ABC News’ Linsey Davis spoke with writer April White about her new book, “The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized ...

Almost exactly 200 years before same-sex marriage was legalized in Vermont, two young women, Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake pledged their lives to each other. In that moment, history was Remember ...

Before there were DMs or selfies, there were watercolour self-portraits, and an American artist boldly used one to send a ...

By 1901, there was one nun per 400 members of the Irish population and many of these women left the country for missionary ...

Vague phrasing in the state’s Revolutionary-era Constitution enfranchised women who met specific property requirements. A ...

More than a 19th-century actress, Binodini Dasi was a woman who dared to write her life in ink, on her own terms. Her memoir ...