The Victorian Lady’s Column

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

Don’t let that prim…

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

Evangeline Cartwright was…

The Victorian Lady’s Column Is Now Accepting Submissions

What you need to know to write for us

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

Back in the olden days…

The Integrity and Responsibility of a Period Piece

Here’s why the inattention to costume accuracy in…

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

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

How the BBC miniseries beautifully brings to life…

Sarah Boone, Pioneer of the Hinged Ironing Board

The story of the Black Victorian dressmaker who…

Grass Stains By the Shores of Silver Lake

A review and analysis of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s…