The first half of the 19th century was a time of great change. Industrialization brought new opportunities for employment, changing ideas of work, and economic cycles of boom and bust. During this ...

The work’s title, Sunday Morning, and the Bible that the woman clutches in a gloved hand ... the many facets of modern life in the late 19th century. In brightly colored paintings and intricate ...

Marriage for working-class women was an economic necessity in 19th-century Britain, as they rarely earned enough to support themselves, let alone any children. For widows, children could be ...

By the second half of the 19th century, the pace of life in Europe ... police in port and garrison towns to detain any woman suspected of sex work and force her to submit to an invasive medical ...

A new exhibition exploring the life of a "remarkable" 19th-century woman has opened at a museum. The exhibition, Elizabeth Charmer: Survival, Love and Heartbreak, will open at Ludlow Museum at the ...

But it’s the work by Danish women artists that ... seems to emblematise the supportive camaraderie of Scandinavian women artists of the 19th century. It shows a group of female artists gathered ...