Sarah’s 1900s neo-classical home, which she shares with husband Gabriel in rural Iowa, is hand-decorated with elaborate ...

1. Gentlemen-in-training must be respectful, polite and well-mannered at dinner and in conversations, especially in ...

If you simply cannot get enough of the lush costumes, grand estates, sprawling fields, and gripping stories that make British ...

Dorothy Cocks argued in her 1927 book Etiquette of Beauty ... beards—so prominent in Victorian times—essentially vanished in the first decades of the 20th century. In 1937, Pendergrast ...

Opened in 2008, this is one of the storefronts for 826LA, a nonprofit founded in 2005 that helps kids ages 6-18 with writing ...

Some vendors specialize in vintage costume jewelry from specific eras, becoming walking encyclopedias of 1950s rhinestone brooches or 1970s statement necklaces. Handmade soaps and body products ...

There must be no respectful remembrance of them; not in a book, monument or statue ... not the paragon of moral purity, Victorian etiquette, religious piety or the like. No, the ruthless warrior ...

Victorian audiences were introduced to such “lady detectives” as these characters began appearing in the popular stage shows of the time. Sara Lodge, who teaches Victorian literature and ...

The redo is total, graceful, and chic . . . It can be done! Ozon goes from virtue-signaling to unsentimental profundity. A department supporting literacy, archive digitization, and conservation is ...

Hanks — a journalist, and yes, also the daughter of Tom — recalls driving the highway 10 across the southwest as she tries to make sense of her unstable upbringing and the life and death of ...

A new book from Vita Sackville-West's grandson, Adam Nicolson, explores the pigeons who can tell their Bach from their Stravinsky and testosterone-fuelled wrens who make Hugh Hefner look tame.

She debuted her first hit titled Come Closer To Me in 1959 and was also labeled as one of the 'Great Dames of Victorian Radio and Television.' Throughout the late 50s and early 60s, the late ...