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 ...

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 ...

Modern medicine has enabled citizens of wealthy, industrialized nations to forget that children once routinely died in shocking numbers. Teaching 19th-century English literature, I regularly encounter ...

homas Worth’s 1872 illustration for the Household Edition of The Old Curiosity Shop highlights her grandfather’s grief at losing Little Nell. Image via Thomas Worth via George P. Landow/Victorian Web.

MEREDITH — Noah’s Ark toys have a long tradition in American culture and were among the most popular children’s playthings of the 19th century in Europe and the U.S. Nearly every Victorian family of ...

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 ...

This imposing 1860s Victorian villa is on a former jousting yard within the ancient royal grounds of Eltham Palace, which by the early 14th century had become one of the largest and most-frequented ...