“Martineau was extremely unusual in the amount of control she had over her own medical care,” says Rachel Ablow, author of the 2017 book Victorian Pain. Photo illustration by Meilan Solly / Photos via ...

In the mid- to late 1800s, insane asylums served as catch-all facilities for violent and difficult women. But were they really criminals? Or even crazy? Or just rebelling against the social ...

Sex scholar Clelia Mosher surveyed women's intimate bedroom secrets. April 12, 2010— -- Queen Victoria's advice to her generation of seemingly uptight and sexless women was to "close your eyes ...

Is the woman seen peering out the window of this 19th century property a ghost from the Victorian era? It seemed like the plot of a horror movie as a mother in southwest England recorded a video of ...