In 1770, when Hannah Waterman was 19 years old, she decided to compile a family history—perhaps because she was feeling very ...

Like today, 18th-century laws about pregnancy aimed to control women. Questions of fetal life were unsettled under English common law — and today’s rulings go far beyond consensus of the time ...

But it discounts the fact that the 18th-century woman was active and in control and could immediately tell whether terminating a pregnancy at a given time was acceptable. SHARE.

The 18th Century Woman is one of several programs that are a result of this research. The event is free for members of the Arlington Historical Society and there is a $5 for non-members.

This video on how an 18th-century woman dressed is ludicrously complicated It’s almost not worth getting out of bed. Josh Katzowitz. Updated on May 22 2021 5:43 am CDT ...

Being an 18th-century woman was no cake walk. Just look at what it took to get dressed each morning. The National Museums Liverpool—with the help of the museum's costume curator, Pauline Rushton ...

But the 18th-century suggestions of homosexuality had more to do with the discomfort contemporaries had about women wielding power than actual same-sex relationships, although those happened too.

This could be why during these difficult, seemingly regressive times, I turned to an unlikely place: an 18th-century representation of women overcome with emotion.

A current exhibit at the Lexington Arts & Crafts Society, or LexArt, celebrates the life and work of Margaret Tulip, an 18th century Lexingtonian woman with Black and Indigenous ancestry who ...

“Macbeth” is a 17th-century play. Must-read 18th-century women’s Gothic novels: “The Old English Baron” by Clara Reeve, and “The Mysteries of Udolpho” by Ann Radcliffe.

A Bundle of 18th-Century Love Letters Is Unsealed at Last More than 100 letters, addressed to French sailors, were never delivered. They remained unopened for nearly 250 years, until a historian ...