When malaise strikes, a book can break the spell—if you choose the right one.

They are typically artifacts from within the last century that get misplaced for a few decades. This book in particular ... and one alive), hoping for a marriage offer. It’s unknown at what ...

Edith Wharton wasn't the first woman in her family to get a divorce. Nearly 50 years before the Pulitzer winner sold her Lenox estate, divorced Teddy Wharton and permanently moved to France, her ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, who wrote a book about polygamy, “A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870,” praises ...

This historical term, which originated in the later part of the 19th century, refers to a once-common living arrangement for women of that era. A Boston marriage ... for her book, Public Faces ...