In addition to adopting postcolonial, feminist, and Bakhtinian lenses in his reading of late 18th century works by British women writers in the wake of critics like Suleri and Lowes, Chatterjee is ...

“That is how I first discovered the early women of science in the Italian peninsula.” As Findlen eagerly flicked the pages, she stumbled upon Cristina Roccati, an 18th-century trailblazer from ...

In the clip, Rain walked viewers through the toxic and harmful chemicals that once adorned the faces of women in the pursuit of beauty. "The most important thing about 18th-century makeup is that ...

The history of 18th-century print is littered with striking instances in which women, like Bridgerton, used cheap print – such as magazines and periodicals – to deliver stunning satirical ...

Some letters contained accounts of wives pining for their husbands away at war, while others included discussions of household finances, the birth of a child ... that 18th-century women were ...

That is, until she discovered a family connection to Charity “Duchess” Channing Quamino, an 18th-century enslaved woman who was so ... and the other as a young child. John, who had won his ...

“Spooky Season” makes readers hungry for horror — a genre with literary roots in Gothic fiction. In that case, October is a time to highlight women’s writing — as the Gothic is ...

illegitimate child after eschewing a pious suitor in favor of an attractive cad. Eighteenth and early 19th century American women’s submission was not merely suggested in prescriptive literature ...

Americans should know about coverture not just to understand the obstacles 18th-century women faced or the limits of “revolution” in 1776, but also because coverture has never been fully ...