“The Dress Diary” is an intimate record of one wardrobe — and its era. Anne Sykes’s collection of fabric remnants, lovingly preserved in an album, documents not merely her life but the Victorian era.

LONDON — Jack the Ripper researchers say they have found a new link between a Victorian diary unearthed 25 years ago and the British cotton merchant believed to have written it. The diary, which is ...

In Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace, Kate Summerscale reconstructs the everyday private life and very public shaming of Isabella Robinson, a wife sued for... If Isabella Robinson had a Facebook account in ...