19th Century Love Letter Holds Up. ... At the moment I write this letter, ... What the restorer found in the antique chair was a letter — a 200-year-old love letter.

The auction today includes more than 300 other items, including letters and autographs from U.S. presidents — such as John F. Kennedy and Franklin D. Roosevelt — to 19th-century soprano Jenny ...

One of the women in the book, Alice Grierson, physically separated from her husband in 1871 when their seventh child died at 3 months old. In a letter to him, she left a description of her ...

Advice books in the 19th century had awfully long titles. Take, for example, the subject of this article, The fashionable American letter writer; or, The art of polite correspondence.Containing a ...

In the 19th century, several English women wrote accounts of their world travels. While considered by some as second-rate travellers, they were just as restless as their male contemporaries.

A BOX of old photographs and letters once used to entertain a small child have become the source of a historical book about a woman who left the… ...

In 19th century England, women often had fewer legal protections than animals, even in cases involving murder. Yale Law Library/Flickr Creative Commons Satire has long been used to expose human ...