Now streaming on Netflix. According to Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, an author and expert in women’s history in the United States, psychiatrists during the Victorian era—or "alienists" as they were ...

Instead, it feels like he’s acknowledging that women were central to the way Victorian England worked (see, also: Queen Vicky herself), even if it was not always acknowledged that they were ...

Dr. Amanda Foreman considers how women faced many restrictions during the Victorian era, with a focus on poor education. Some of Fawcett’s legacies are explored. For example, the all-female ...

It’s a full-time job. So consider, if you will, Victorian woman, and the insane constraints placed upon her. If in 2017 the ideal woman is expected to stay quiet in a meeting lest she be labeled ...