Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens ...

Headline, a division of Hachette UK, has scooped two new crime novels by Ann Granger. World English-language volume rights ...

Drawing on recent work in critical theory, feminism, and social history, this book explains the relationship between the novel and the emergent commodity culture of Victorian England, using the image ...

In this novel, a number of Victorian fears are presented. We see the fear of 'the other' or 'foreignness' presented through the character of Tonga, who is depicted as savage and inherently evil.

Modern medicine has enabled citizens of wealthy, industrialized nations to forget that children once routinely died in ...