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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 ...
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 ...
Overcrowded graveyards couldn’t keep pace with the growing population and the rising number of deaths, causing contagious ...
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 ...
Virginia Feito’s relentlessly gory novel “Victorian Psycho” announces its narrator’s grisly intentions from the start.
When one thinks of landscape watercolors, it is hard not picture pastoral scenes of England’s green and ... The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century British Landscapes and Beyond ...
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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