But there’s another era in history that deserves its due as a pitch-perfect setting for romance books: the Victorian era. The contrast between Victorians’ straitlaced cultural norms and the ...

Books from the Victorian era, such as cloth-bound hardcovers, Christmas annuals, and serialized novels can be found at the exhibition. The curator of the exhibit, Rebecca Baumann, said before the 19th ...

She was the very embodiment of the Victorian ideology of a woman's place being in the home. One of the most famous books of the Victorian age is The Book of Household Management. With a History of ...

Deanna Raybourn takes us back to Victorian times in “Sinister Revenge ... she describes her books as mysteries with enough romance to keep readers who like both genres happy.

Chemists from Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, have also been studying Victorian books from that university's library collection in order to identify and quantify levels of poisonous ...

The Poison Book Project is working to identify old books that contain toxic pigments like arsenic, which made Victorian-era books in the 1800s more eye-catching. Melissa Tedone is leading the project.