Gertrude Himmelfarb, also known as Bea Kristol, spent much of her time thinking about and writing on the moral questions of the Victorian era. (Sylvia Johnson) Economists measure economic change ...

In a lavish Victorian-era parlor, a woman in a lace-trimmed dress half rises from the lap of a reclining man, her gaze ...

Gertrude Himmelfarb, a giant of 20th-century American letters, died Monday; she was 97. Reviewing her 1968 masterpiece, “Victorian Minds,” in Commentary, the sociologist Robert Nisbet wrote ...

In the rising tide of Victorian morality, one female Londoner in every 16 became a whore; there were 6,000 brothels and about 80,000 prostitutes*(the Lancet’s estimate).

The painter William Powell Frith (1819-1909) was the embodiment of traditional Victorian art, his works depicting the realities of everyday life in nineteenth century Britain. Often compared to artist ...

A Victorian writer, she always said what it meant in a dazzlingly beautiful way. 'Renouncement', her poem about her lover, is a good example, it skated on the edge of Victorian morality.