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 ...

And although she doesn't necessarily romanticize the Victorian era — "obviously things are better now socially, politically, all that stuff," she said — D'Incecco is able to travel back in ...

Here's how to wrap the era's rich, opulent designs into your own Christmas decor and carry on the traditions popularized during the reign of Britain's Queen Victoria. Generally, Victorian style ...