A woman’s hair is more than something that merely ... She has spent the past 15 years studying portraits of women from the ...

Kelly Marshall Most 19th-century schoolmistresses are long forgotten ... a University of Delaware art historian. At a time when women had almost no control over legal documents and played a ...

You might think that beards are popular now, but the mid-19th century ... that women were training their lovelocks down their face in imitation Whiskers became the facial hair fashion du jour.

Meanwhile, the army handed out goat hair moustaches to recruits who couldn’t grow one themselves. 9. At the height of 19th-century beard mania, there was even a brief fashion for women to tie ...

Murdoch explains that a “battle over women’s access to public space” took place in the later decades of the 19th century ... in a domestic greenhouse. Her hair falls loosely down her ...