Examination of early Victorian recipes shows that mince pies were initially made from meat, a tradition dating back to Tudor times. However, during the 19th century there was a revolution in the ...
A new exhibition spotlights James Tissot, whose paintings and prints reflected women’s ever-evolving roles in Victorian society ... modern life in the late 19th century. In brightly colored ...
Teaching 19th ... 19th-century memento photographs taken of deceased children surrounded by their living siblings. The specter of death, such scenes remind us, lay at the center of Victorian ...
Quinn le Blanc, the most successful con artist in London, has her sights set on a certain wealthy bachelor. But she might have underestimated the depth of his family’s secrets, and she certainly seems ...
"This Christmas, the gas-lit rooms will be full of characters you might have met on a Victorian street or in a late 19th Century home," he said. "Victorian Christmas, or Noué Victorien in ...
1300-c.1390): Perpendicular English (c.1390-c.1540). These definitions were soon adopted and became the basic conceptual categories of the Gothic Revival for the rest of the 19th century. But the key ...