In “The Enchanted April,” by Elizabeth von Arnim, four Englishwomen are transformed by a temporary loss of self.

St Helens and Dick Kerr Ladies Legends Lizzy Ashcroft and Lily Parr, from the Golden Era of women’s football, have just been ...

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They say beauty is pain, but for some Victorian women, beauty was death. During the mid-19th century, many fashionable women ...

In Alexandra Metcalf’s artistic imagination, the Victorian and the psychedelic collide with dark histories of women’s psychiatric facilities “I’m obsessed with madness,” said Metcalf on ...

A guide to finding historical records from Kew Asylum. Opened in 1872, the Kew Asylum housed men, women and children, providing cute assessment, rehabilitation, family relief care, long-term care, ...

Reviews Victorian lady detectives are back on the case in ‘Escape from the Asylum’ Washington Stage Guild's latest production — subtitled 'A Madcap Mystery’ — is a comedic take on the whodunit with ...

 The Victorian Ladies’ Detective Collective. Three intrepid lady detectives hatch a plan to free a perfectly sane woman explorer shut away in an asylum by her husband.

On the Victorian stage, the woman detective became a gun-toting, fist-swinging action heroine in theatres where she appeared before audiences of up to 4,000 people every night.

The unsolved mystery of the Borden murders brought national attention to a prim Victorian woman and raised the specter of the female criminal.