Before Hemingway swaggered through Paris or Fitzgerald gilded the Jazz Age, women ruled American letters. In the mid-19th ...
Culture Editor Kelsey Bohn discusses the intersection between discussions of ambiguity surrounding LGBTQ+ identity in modern media and 19th-century classical literature.
IF Mary Ellen Best were to return to York, she’d hardly recognise the street where she was born since the house itself has, in fact, disappeared. She was born in October 1809, in a three-storey ...
In this illuminating narrative, Syrett (American Child Bride), a gender studies professor at the University of Kansas, profiles Ann Trow Summers Lohman (1812–1878), a female physician and abortion ...
Although "inspired by true events," "The Woman King" clearly isn't tethered to them, using the underlying story of 19th-century female warriors in an African kingdom as the jumping-off point for a ...
Time was when Rachel Portesi did much of her photography using Polaroid film. She loved the immediacy of the image, the way each photo was different and often didn’t quite match what her eye had seen, ...
The show will weave the points of view of a young female villager destined for greater things, and an enlightened monarch leading a once wealthy kingdom. Opening in 1889, the series will follow the ...
Toner Stevenson is affiliated with the University of Sydney, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Humanities. She is currently Vice President of Sydney City Skywatchers, an amateur astronomy ...
When Gwen Stefani wrote her 2003 hit song “Just a Girl,” chances are she didn’t have the struggles of a 19th century female pianist in mind. But Randall Kramer and Theresa Quinn did. The duo ...