Instead of round, fecund bellies, Victorian women chose to portray themselves ... but many of those illustrations are intended to be either comical or aspirational. Marion McNealy in her essay ...

An illustration from French fashion magazine ... As Oneill discovered, even the wealthiest Victorian woman would have spent a very short period of her life dancing in gilded ballrooms with ...

A pair of illustrations from The Woman in White Public domain via Wikimedia ... that characterized tamer Victorian fiction. But Collins went further than most writers in his targeted attacks ...

by women and others, comes to light. “Playing With Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage” is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 9: (212) 535-7710, metmuseum.org. The Met's ...

As part of this movement, some Victorian women turned to radical acts of protest ... They smashed windows and destroyed the gallery's most valuable pictures. According to a news outlet that ...

Drawn by a Lady: Early Women Illustrators, which celebrates the talent of artists and authors in 19th-century Victorian England who were disregarded ... displays more than 40 works of early botanical ...

It clearly reveals the everyday presence of women of all classes amongst the city crowds, and it also offers a new and different picture of Victorian urban life. Rather than seduction and ...

The law was changed to accommodate such women, with the introduction of the Infanticide Act - creating a whole new legal definition of this kind of killing. That Act remains in force today. The ...

THE DRESS DIARY: Secrets From a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe, by Kate Strasdin The way we dress is a fundamental expression of identity: Garments function as indicators of aesthetic tastes ...

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 ...