If we are to believe novelists, England in the 1700s and 1800s featured two kinds of women: those who sat at home stewing about lost suitors, and con artists. It used to be that books featured a whole ...
Feb. 2, meet author Elizabeth C. Bunce, the word-sleuthing mastermind behind the “Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery” series, during an author talk at Helena Middle School at 1 p.m.
The Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth - home of writers Anne, Charlotte and Emily Brontë - is hosting the Haworth to ...
The 1836 house, located in one of Cape Cod’s oldest towns, received a fresh look by notable theater set designers ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Earlier this winter, in the hope of slashing his energy bill, Charles Mason, a 59-year-old Derbyshire ...
The attack from all sides was so general, that they were almost instantaneously covered with mud.” These angry scenes took ...
If you are familiar with Austen’s world then you might get a version you were not expecting, but you won’t laugh as long or ...
In England, there is a tiny village that was created in the late 1800s to house families brought ... a leading writer of the Victorian era whose father was the land agent for the Newdegates.
The Victorian period was a period of great social change in England, and of an expanding ... By the end of the 1800s it had become quite common for people to have a telephone in their home.