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Living in the 19th century, Helen DeKroyft was an incredibly popular and highly praised blind orator and author. Her ability to gain such success was not only due to her intelligence, but also due to the ability for audiences to...

Helen DeKroyft 19th century disability studies S. Helen Aldrich New York Institute for the Blind middle class Arts and Humanities disability studies History Women's History

This paper examines the effect of variable reporting and coding practices on the measurement of maternal mortality in urban and rural Scotland, 1861-1901, using recorded causes of death and women who died within six weeks of...

19th century Certification of death Doctors maternal mortality Obstetric transition Scotland Under-recording Death Certificates Female Health Status Disparities History 19th Century Humans Maternal Health Services maternal mortality Pregnancy Rural Population Scotland Urban Population

George Sand and Rachilde, two important French female writers of the 19th c, discuss androgynous characters and borderline homosexual relationships in their works. They are part of a larger literary trend obsessed with liminal...

Rachilde George Sand 19th century Francophone literature Gender sexuality Arts and Humanities Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies French and Francophone Language and Literature