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In response to the passage from Thomas Hardy's "The Imaginative Woman" which portrays the mundane life that most women share in Victorian Society in lieu of marriage, as well as the role women are then confined to, I am sharing a poem by Christina…

This article in Hearth and Home magazine details what hysteria is, how it affects women in the Victorian period, and how women need to act in order to combat this illness. It is filled with highly sexist ideas, such as the idea that women need to use…

The illustrations show the different perspectives of two different mental institutions during 1840s England. The first image is the outside of the building. Here, one sees nothing out of the ordinary. It looks like a castle with people walking…

This brief news blurb published in 1872 by The Englishwoman's Review announces the establishment of a woman's library in the French capital Paris, and further requests that any reader interested in furthering the cause of women's education is…

Evans lived a generous childhood, doing what she could to help the local impoverished where she grew up. This taught her lessons on humanity that would later appear in her works. As a young adult she learned French, German and Italian in addition to…

The Operative Miller or The Technical Milling Paper was a paper aimed towards millers and their hardware. The paper featured advertisements for tools, articles which offered techniques, as well as help-wanted ads. In this piece, the Alsop Process…

The Hearst Magazine features the "Woman's Realm" department, fortifying the ideals of the numerous "privileges" obtained by women. In this particular advertisement, readers are encouraged to spend ten cents on a single copy that lists the appropriate…

Here, James details his personal qualifications for writing a worthy ghost story. He holds in high regard one's ability to create a setting that is utterly normal and strikingly mundane. It is unsurprising that this qualification tops James' list,…

In the preface to James' first collection of ghost stories, he expresses his unmet desire to have had a greater amount of illustrations alongside his novel. The four that did make it to publication, none of which accompanied "The Mezzotint, "were…