Georgian & Victorian japanned wares of the West Midlands

Historical Wig Styling: Victorian to the Present, 2nd edition, is a guide to creating beautiful, historically accurate hairstyles for theatrical productions and events. T...

Abstract Imagining Women’s Property in Victorian Fiction reframes Victorian women’s changing economic rights and their representation in nineteenth-century novels to...

Abstract Though for well over a century the novels of R.S. Surtees have maintained a steady readership, his books have been comparatively neglected in the literary a...

This chapter focuses on the fragrance of single flower—the violet—which although often associated with the modest Victorian maiden, has an alternative literary genealogy that links...

Abstract The Victorian period was distinguished by several historical developments that revolutionized art instruction. A growing investment in standardized educatio...

This brief coda considers the advantages of making the aesthetic a key term in our thinking about secularism. Accounts of Victorian secularization often treat the aesthetic as a ki...

Marrying two exceptionally popular topics–needlework and women's history–this book provides an authoritative yet entertaining discussion of the diversity and importance of needlewo...