Oliver Twist' reveals that childhood is rarely innocent. Dickens shows how hunger, neglect, and survival shape a child’s ...

DEER CREEK (310 pp.)—Gulielma Fell Alsop—Vanguard ($3). Gulielma Alsop* can remember when a nickel was a respectable weekly allowance for a little girl. When she went walking with her father, a Quaker ...

Thomas Worth's 1872 illustration for the Household Edition of _The Old Curiosity Shop_ highlights her grandfather's grief at losing Little Nell. Thomas Worth via George P. Landow/Victorian Web Modern ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Andrea Kaston Tange, Macalester College (THE CONVERSATION) Modern medicine has enabled ...

This Victorian home offers a glimpse into the life of Howard Hanson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, conductor and educator.

Sex scholar Clelia Mosher surveyed women's intimate bedroom secrets. April 12, 2010— -- Queen Victoria's advice to her generation of seemingly uptight and sexless women was to "close your eyes ...

Victoria's childcare regulators are failing to keep kids safe due to poor information sharing, legal constraint, chronic underfunding and a system that places the privacy of educators and the pursuit ...

Laura Hawkins Frazer, identified by Sam Clemens during his lifetime as the model for Tom Sawyer’s famed childhood sweetheart, ...

The police are treating the fire at Milltown House, on the former site of Strabane Grammar School in County Tyrone, as deliberate.