Her brother Fred – that staple of the 19th-century novel, the young man pursued by debtors – has to redeem himself before he is allowed near his potential bride. But the key story is of the ...

The conversations — which one participant called “a vindication of woman’s right to think” — became the basis of Fuller’s groundbreaking book, “Woman in the Nineteenth Century ...

Books by the most popular Polish 19th-century culinary writer Lucyna Ćwierczakiewiczow ... finances, harmony, the union of marriage, hospitality, the dignity and splendour of the household, and ...

By the 19th century, in the Victorian era, "love match" marriages became the common aspiration. In 1920, women won the right to vote, transforming marriage into a union of two full citizens ...

Her dissertation "Gender, Power, and the January-May Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature" examines age as an important component of gender construction. Her essay "From Governess to Girl ...