Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thomas Worth’s 1872 illustration for the Household Edition of The Old Curiosity Shop highlights her grandfather’s grief at losing ...

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So in order to imagine what our forebearers would make of university life as we know it, enter a scruffy little street urchin from Victorian London to provide their reaction to the following hallmarks ...

Modern medicine has enabled citizens of wealthy, industrialized nations to forget that children once routinely died in shocking numbers. Teaching 19th-century English literature, I regularly encounter ...

MEREDITH — Noah’s Ark toys have a long tradition in American culture and were among the most popular children’s playthings of the 19th century in Europe and the U.S. Nearly every Victorian family of ...

While 1950s parenting practices seem shocking today, Victorian-era child-rearing reached levels of cruelty that modern neuroscience reveals caused catastrophic brain damage. From drugging babies with ...

Modern medicine has enabled citizens of wealthy, industrialized nations to forget that children once routinely died in shocking numbers. Teaching 19th-century English literature, I regularly encounter ...

homas Worth’s 1872 illustration for the Household Edition of The Old Curiosity Shop highlights her grandfather’s grief at losing Little Nell. Image via Thomas Worth via George P. Landow/Victorian Web.