“That’s very hard for historians to capture.” She said the letters added to growing evidence that 18th-century women were not always shy about expressing their intimate desires to their partner ...

But is it even physically possible for a woman to have nearly 70 children? According to the BBC, the records of an 18th-century Russian monastery reported that Valentina Vassilyev gave birth 27 ...

As she walked past a bookstore, her eyes landed on a book displayed in its window, Alma Mater ... of 1989 to dig up the stories of women scholars in the 18th century from the Italian archives.

The history of 18th-century print is littered with striking instances in which women, like Bridgerton, used cheap print – such as magazines and periodicals – to deliver stunning satirical ...