Activists in the 19th century also rallied for improvements to women’s education, a cause that is arguably reflected in Tissot’s The Newspaper (1883). The print features a woman peering at a ...

Much of what we know about the education of young women in the 19th century we learned from examples of her stitchery found among samplers and other needle arts.

The Countess of Castiglione, a ravishing Italian aristocrat living in 19th-century Paris, both captivated and scandalized the French court. In the 1850s, she was known as the most beautiful woman ...

Many people of the late 19th century must have liked seeing, and being, women adorned with large, enhanced backsides. To suggest that fashion is a cycle divorced from context is to suggest it ...

Behold, a woman fuming. Though she’s dressed in an opulent, fur-trimmed gown in a palatial French home sometime in the mid-19th century, her silent fury is recognizable to women the world over ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with South African actress Thuso Mbedu about her role in "The Woman King," a new movie about woman warriors in 19th century West Africa.

The Catholic Church asked a team of scientists and the Quai Branly museum in Paris to examine the heart of Pauline Jaricot — a 19th-century missionary worker from Lyon, France, who died in 1862 ...

These Stunning 19th-Century Artworks Reveal the Contradictions of the Modern Woman A new exhibition spotlights James Tissot, whose paintings and prints reflected women’s ever-evolving roles in ...