The work’s title, Sunday Morning, and the Bible that the woman clutches in a gloved hand ... the many facets of modern life in the late 19th century. In brightly colored paintings and intricate ...

Marriage for working-class women was an economic necessity in 19th-century Britain, as they rarely earned enough to support themselves, let alone any children. For widows, children could be ...

By the second half of the 19th century, the pace of life in Europe ... police in port and garrison towns to detain any woman suspected of sex work and force her to submit to an invasive medical ...