Victorian society was full of jobs that feel unbelievable today, yet they were once essential parts of daily life. From rat ...

It’s a sepia-toned present-day image of Sarah and Gabriel Chrisman, a couple who are, in their own words, “engaged in a long-term experiential study of culture and technologies of the late 19th ...

Ruth Goodman is a rare person. She has not just researched the Victorian era, she has lived it. She has sewn its clothes, lived its conditions and done its work. Yes, she has washed floors in an ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Tucked among the many vintage books at the home on 4201 Hooker St. is an 1854 Shakespeare canon bound in sheepskin. And tucked clandestinely near the back of ...

Brush your teeth with soot, stay away from water, wear a steel corset. We’ll talk with the author of “How to Be A Victorian.” Strange ways from another age. Frederick Daniel Hardy's "Baby's Birthday" ...

Current views concerning Victorian femininity continue to be dominated by the 19th-century concept of domestic purity and the associated figure of the ideal woman, the 'angel in the house', carrying ...

The Victorian era conjures images of buttoned-up propriety, strict moral codes, and a society obsessed with decorum and respectability. It was a world of parlor etiquette, modest dress, and rigid ...

There are a few kinds of architecture you’d expect to find in the French Quarter. You’d expect Creole cottages. You might expect colonial-era French architecture. You might even come across a Greek ...

For more than 50 years, American women have cast offconstrictive undergarments, which feminists have long criticized as symbols of repression. But for one Seattle resident, embracing the corset in the ...