Though local suffrage slowly opened to women in many states, suffragists continued their fight for national voting rights through the 19th century. Mocked, jailed, beaten, and force-fed ...

The female authors of 19th-century culinary bestsellers were sophisticated ... but ‘sober-minded’ women with more experience than young married women, who recall that ‘a healthy mind resides in a ...

During the 19th century, married women in England and Wales began to ... Madeleine Smith, a young lady from a wealthy Glaswegian family, risked everything when she began an affair with Pierre ...