About 90% of English women in the 18th Century worked outside the home, like this shellfish seller painted by William Hogarth in the 1740s The belief that sex before marriage was unusual in the ...

The Rights of Women' also refers to the role of the female in eighteenth-century society. The poet states that 'The Rights of Woman merit some attention'. The rights of which Burns speaks are ...

More information: Renata Maria de Almeida Martins, Lacquers of the Amazon: Cuias, Cumatê and Colours by Indigenous Women in Grão-Pará in the 18th Century, Heritage (2024). DOI: 10.3390 ...

Violence against women has been accepted and even condoned throughout history. More than 2,000 years ago, Roman law gave a man life and death authority over his wife. In the 18th Century ...

When the Potomac River ushered its humid 18th-century breezes, Martha Washington used her delicate hand fan as a cooling tool ...