Augusta Theodosia Drane, a 19th-century English religious leader , published works including poetry, histories, essays and ...

These texts have also been placed on reserve at the Barnard library. A variety of supplemental materials have been placed on reserve as well.

To commemorate the centennial of the 19th Amendment, the 10 female presidents of the American Bar Association reflect on the suffragist ... When you vote, you are choosing the people who will make the ...

goad me to read the Kalma, the Purana. That’s from a devotional poem by Peero, a courtesan who fled the kothis of ...

Anger, humour and irreverence mark the poems in the new anthology, Wild Women. Writers include a former courtesan, a ...

The Greenwich Village rowhouse housed one of NYC's most successful 19th-century African American businessmen and one of its first Off-Off-Broadway theaters.

At Dublin’s 48 Gardiner St. Lower, a plaque honors the boyhood home of Greek-Irish writer Patrick Lafacadio Hearn, who is ...

“I like to create roller-coasters in the ballet world, where the audience is really on the edge of their seat,” says ...

Outside the Circle is a wide-ranging exhibition drawing on the radical female history of “She Town”, writes Sophia Yadong Hao ...

From its inception at the hands of Mary Shelley in 1818 (scholars nowadays unanimously agree that Frankenstein, or, The ...

Jeremy Dauber’s “American Scary” traces the uncanny origins of the spookiest stories told in our young nation.