Sleeping Pennsylvania woman wakes up to find masked man standing over her bed, police say 01:34. WILKINSBURG, ... fancy Victorian houses doesn't mean that this isn't reality," said Alyssa Potance.

The woman in repose offered Victorian viewers an unthreatening sort of sexiness, contained to armchairs and sick beds. The Hammock , James Tissot, 1880, etching and drypoint on laid paper Art ...

Victorian women photographed breastfeeding their babies. The trend died out in the 1940s due to the invention of the formula. Rachel Hosie. Tuesday 14 November 2017 11:09 GMT. Comments.

If we are to believe novelists, England in the 1700s and 1800s featured two kinds of women: those who sat at home stewing about lost suitors, and con artists. It used to be that books featured a ...

"Near, far, wherever you are… police are out and about on the roads ," police said.

Escort cards mimicked Victorian calling cards, which members of the upper classes left at each other’s houses to introduce themselves, further a relationship, give congratulations, or express ...

According to Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, an author and expert in women’s history in the United States, psychiatrists during the Victorian era—or "alienists" as they were often called in the 19th ...

A woman has been left to die while waiting up to five hours for an ambulance due to an emergency services stand-off.

The family of an 81-year-old woman who died 12 days after she was hit by a cyclist while on a walk have called for an update to the Victorian law he was charged under following his acquittal.

The Victorian report found that overall, the percentage of Victorian women in full time employment was 18.6 percentage points lower than men, with only 27.4% working full time.

Women soon began to seek a more independent life. The idea of femininity in the Victorian era was encapsulated in the idea of the 'woman's mission', but this passive role could not be tolerated ...

Married women’s property activists didn’t think this measure went far enough, and in 1873, they promoted a new bill that would give all wives the same property rights as single women.