Scroll ornaments of the early Victorian period

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 Difficult Ornaments is a book about six twentieth-century American poets, the mythical Florida they explored, and the American tropical style they created. ...

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...

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...

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...

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