Fascinating Women: Sissieretta Jones
byOpera singers were the world’s first pop stars, and the nineteenth century saw the apex of diva and divo worship, with hundreds of thousands…
Women
Lifting As We Climb: the Women’s Club Movement
byIn the late nineteenth century, feminism, suffrage, political action, self-culture and self-help devolved in the women’s club movement, which enjoyed a heyday from the…
Smoking Etiquette
bySmoking in the nineteenth century underwent many amusing changes, per the advice of etiquette books. Guides to modern behavior once stressed how vulgar it…