Silver argues that anorexia nervosa, first diagnosed in 1873, serves as a paradigm for the cultural ideal of middle-class womanhood in Victorian Britain. In addition, Silver relates these literary ...
So in addition to the expected delights of this year’s romances — lush historical eras, dazzling space battles, scenes of love triumphant — there’s a resonant thread of grief running ...
“Tory spending cuts send us back to the misery of the Victorian workhouse,” cried a Mirror headline in 2010. Workhouses were “bleak, grimly austere and oppressive”, wrote the author of a study of one ...
By Sam Thielman Our columnist on some recent favorites. By Olivia Waite Romantasies, paranormals and fantasy romances, just in time for Halloween. By Olivia Waite Sophie Kinsella, the author ...
16 Historical Characters From Ancient Mythology Who Actually Existed In Real Life The history of humanity is the history of stories. Fantastical feats of strength by legendary warriors, tales of ...
North and South is a four-part adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's love story of Margaret Hale, a middle-class southerner who is forced to move to the northern town of Milton.