In the mid- to late 1800s, insane asylums served as catch ... Canada But what about the thousands of Victorian-era women who were never accused of violence or specific crimes yet were nonetheless ...

If we are to believe novelists, England in the 1700s and 1800s featured two kinds ... it feels like he’s acknowledging that women were central to the way Victorian England worked (see, also ...

One of the liveliest of the many intellectual and social debates that raged in 19th-century Britain was that over what the Victorians called the “woman question ... interrogate or reproduce ...