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At the close of the 19th century, Grace is a sharp-witted near-orphan living with her miserable but rich aunt in a decaying ...

The Buccaneers like Bridgerton and Pride and Prejudices centres on a romanticised girlhood that women relate and invest in as ...

Victorian hairstyles combined charm and complexity to create timeless looks with curls, braids, and volume. Discover the most captivating looks from the era.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, women’s clothing was multi-layered; skirts fell all the way to the ground, while bustles and hoops created an almost tent-like effect, ideal for hiding stolen goods.

The woman in repose offered Victorian viewers an unthreatening sort of sexiness, contained to armchairs and sick beds. The Hammock, James Tissot, 1880, etching and drypoint on laid paper Art ...

A Victorian postcard showing a woman falling from her bicycle. University of Warwick The intention behind these images was to showcase women’s supposed technical and physical inability. The ...

Apart from the queen - who was the ideal Victorian woman? She may have resembled Mrs Frances Goodby, the wife of the Reverend J Goodby of Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, of whom it was said ...

Discover how attitudes to a woman's place changed, as charitable missions began to extend the female role of service, and Victorian feminism began to emerge as a potent political force.

In the Victorian era, it was tiny waists and large butts; in the 1920s, no curves and boyish figures were beautiful; in the 1960s, super-skinny was the trend. Pexels / Antonio Friedemann ...