In the 1800s, Lexington women continued the courageous leadership ... Here in Lexington, Eliza is also famous for helping to found Follen Church! Born to free Quaker parents, Mary Elizabeth ...

Female patients were hospitalized for 'hysteria' at the famous Salpetriere Hospital in Paris, France, during the 1870s. While some images seem to reveal women with legitimate mental illnesses ...

Inspired by her example as well as others, more women started traveling alone, and the late 19th and early 20th centuries spawned a cohort of famous and adventurous solo women travel authors ...

The death of 116-year-old Susannah Mushatt Jones in New York City on Thursday leaves just one person on Earth who was alive in the 1800s. Born about a month before 1900 began and when England ...

Almost Famous Women is the kind of "high concept" short-story collection that invites skepticism. These stories are about 13 historical women whose names you mostly might sort-of recognize.

Not only that, but Morano is believed to be the last surviving person in the world born in the 1800s, with a birthdate ... husband in the Fascist era, when women were supposed to be submissive.