In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” rare-book dealer Rebecca Romney discovers overlooked women authors who inspired the famous ...

The Bronte sisters were among a wave of female authors combating sexism in literature in 19th Century by using male ... no doubt Louisa May Alcott's Little Women adorns your book shelf, but ...

Not as easily recognized are intriguing women who contributed equally engaging and relevant works to Irish literature ... in the last decade or so of the 19th century. Although their works ...

Women had to wait another couple of centuries for cookbooks to develop, and they only started to write down recipes they had collected in the 19th century. Such literature was aimed at a female ...

Many women writers throughout history have sought to ... against the limitations that society placed on women. In the 19th century, when French women were required to apply for a permit to wear ...

Husna-Tara Prakash, Sreemati Mukherjee and Devasis Chattopadhyay discuss Kolkata as a vibrant city in the 19th century at ...

Targoff writes that she made it through an undergraduate degree and a PhD without mention of any female early modern authors – but women writers did not just appear in the 19th century, with the ...

As a result of their exposure to a wealth of literature, these reading women became significant conduits for haskalah (Enlightenment) ideas and ideals within the Jewish community. This deceptively ...

In 19th-century Britain and North America, women were regarded as the ‘weaker sex’. Their ability to bear children gave rise to a feminine ideal based on marriage and motherhood, while their ...

Many of his subjects were fashionable, bourgeois women, whom he depicted in an array of settings that reflected the many facets of modern life in the late 19th century. In brightly colored ...