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Only if you had computer games! Test your 19th century acumen with this nifty site. (I was batting .1000 until I wore a low-cut gown to a dinner party.) More »
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Newishly-minted domestic goddess Sophie Dahl will be fronting a BBC documentary on Isabella Beeton, the author of Victorian Bible Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management. Despite the authoritative title, the matron in question was 23. More »
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"Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage," an amazing exhibit that just showed at the Metropolitan Museum, illuminates a bizarre, fascinating art form. The Victorian ladies making these surreal photo-scrap-books were not kidding around - except when they were: More »
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"Madalene and Louisa Pasley used their imagination in the 1850s to create a fantasy world where humans interacted with giant insects." Yes, please! More »
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For generations, "hysteria" was considered a woman's complaint. A new book blows the lid off the myth. More »
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