If we are to believe novelists, England in the 1700s and 1800s featured two kinds of women: those who sat at home stewing about lost suitors, and con artists. It used to be that books featured a whole ...

Honoring defiant Victorian women writers who gave voice to the silenced. Their stories of autonomy and vulnerability still resonate today.

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 ...

Over the past several years, English writer Sarah Waters has captured a corner of the market with a genre she created, the "Victorian lesbian romp." Beginning with male impersonators in the music-hall ...

Excluded from a male-dominated art world, women artists in early 20th-century London pioneered their own social networks.