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Jun 30, 2021 · At first glance there appears to be only one woman in Emily Mary Osborn’s painting Nameless and Friendless, a young lady in mourning clothes right at the centre of the composition. Look more closely though and you can see that there are actually three women portrayed in the picture, and each one reveals something about the position and status ...
May 1, 2024 · Dressed in a mini skirt and passionate about boys, music, dance and fashion, the 1960s teenage girl is a pop culture icon, the seeming beneficiary of the ascendancy of mass youth culture in...
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Aug 17, 2014 · The image of the young woman as an idealised paragon of feminine virtue might have seemed as fantastical as a unicorn, or as foreign as a dromedary, to the medieval parents of young unmarried women. And yet this image is important in late medieval English culture because it represents an ideology about the identity of girls and young women.
Jan 24, 2022 · In the first instalment of a series on London style, we delve into the wardrobes of the fashionable woman of the 1920s, and explore the clothes and accessories a well-to-do female Londoner would have slipped into for a night out in the capital.
Many have seen the status of women in the Victorian era as an illustration of the striking discrepancy between the United Kingdom 's national power and wealth and what many, then and now, consider its appalling social conditions.
Jun 13, 2022 · The 18th century is a significant period for analyzing how women were ill-treated by the male-dominated society. It is an age defined by gender inequality and discrimination. The idea of the superiority of men and their ownership of women made women oppressed victims of the patriarchal society.
A selection of images illustrating different aspects of women's lives in the late Victorian (1880s - 1900s) and Edwardian (1900s - 1914) periods.
