The Reclusive Ghostwriter Behind “Little Women” and “Anne of Green Gables”

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Cat Memes Began in the Victorian Era

Our collective obsession with photographing and captioning feline…

The Integrity and Responsibility of a Period Piece

Here’s why the inattention to costume accuracy in…

Top Ten FAQs of Civil War Reenacting

Is that a real fire? Is that a real gun? ARE YOU HOT IN THOSE…

Sarah Boone, Pioneer of the Hinged Ironing Board

The story of the Black Victorian dressmaker who…

“Say What Is True” — A Review of Little Women (2017)

How the BBC miniseries beautifully brings to life…

Edgar Allan Poe’s Very Deliberate and Very Meta Writing Process for the Spookiest, Most Angsty Poem Imaginable

If Our Future Descendants Talk About Shoes the Way We Talk About Corsets Today

Back in the olden days…

Why Didn’t People Smile In Old-Timey Photographs?

You might have learned a myth about this in school.

Martha Wright, Two-Hundred-Year-Old Feminist Abolitionist, Made Me Laugh Out Loud

Don’t let that prim…