George Eliot’s Middlemarch and I have had a difficult relationship. Forty-five years ago, having just passed my entrance exam, I went up to Cambridge in the snow-engulfed Winter of Discontent to ...

More than a 19th-century actress, Binodini Dasi was a woman who dared to write her life in ink, on her own terms. Her memoir ...

Almost exactly 200 years before same-sex marriage was legalized in Vermont, two young women, Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake pledged their lives to each other. In that moment, history was Remember ...

The ink had barely dried on a New York judge’s approval for the divorce of the former Jessie Sloane, ending her 17-year marriage to Henry Sloane, another wealthy member of the era's upper crust ...

Though she’s dressed in an opulent, fur-trimmed gown in a palatial French home sometime in the mid-19th century, her silent fury is recognizable to women the world over who’ve contained their ...

The biggest shake-up to wedding laws since the 19th Century would give couples more choice, a government commissioned report has said. The Law Commission described current rules around weddings as ...