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 ...

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 ...