THE DRESS DIARY: Secrets From a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe, by Kate Strasdin. The way we dress is a fundamental expression of identity: Garments function as indicators of aesthetic tastes, ...

Liberating Fashion: Aesthetic Dress in Victorian Portraits is on at the Watts Gallery from 17 February to 7 June. For more information visit the website. ...

Across the channel in France, Ange-Gabriel-Maxime Vernois (1809–1877), a consulting physician to the highest in the land, including Emperor Napoleon III, was conducting his own studies.