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These Stunning 19th-Century Artworks Reveal the Contradictions of the Modern WomanA new exhibition spotlights James Tissot, whose paintings and prints reflected women’s ever-evolving roles in Victorian ...
Overcrowded graveyards couldn’t keep pace with the growing population and the rising number of deaths, causing contagious ...
However, in early 19th-century England, the increased emphasis on domesticity ... Some relief was provided through new life insurance schemes if a spouse had been prudent, and the lives of ...
As a result, by 1881 only 10 out of 87 towns in England ... 19th century had seen great strides in public health provision and hygiene. However, there was still a lot of ill health. In 1900 ...
The novel is subtitled “A Study of Provincial Life”. Most of the action takes ... Her brother Fred – that staple of the 19th-century novel, the young man pursued by debtors – has to ...
Hot on the heels of the Venice Biennale, an exhibition at the Museo di Palazzo Grimani pairs objects and illustrations from 19th-century life sciences from the George Loudon Collection in England ...
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