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 ...

Oliver Twist' reveals that childhood is rarely innocent. Dickens shows how hunger, neglect, and survival shape a child’s ...

(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 ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Laura Hawkins Frazer, identified by Sam Clemens during his lifetime as the model for Tom Sawyer’s famed childhood sweetheart, ...

Industry advocates say the federal government must do the heavy lifting when it comes to overhauling the child care sector.

Victoria's childcare regulators are failing to keep kids safe due to poor information sharing, legal constraint, chronic underfunding and a system that places the privacy of educators and the pursuit ...

The police are treating the fire at Milltown House, on the former site of Strabane Grammar School in County Tyrone, as deliberate.