Tissot’s flair for tantalizing subtexts and eye for the sumptuous details of women’s clothing made him a ... facets of modern life in the late 19th century. In brightly colored paintings ...

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 ...

In the late 19th century ... Women are more likely than men to be prescribed sedatives instead of painkillers—a tendency that some experts interpret as a holdover from Victorian times, the ...