Overview :Cecil Beaton was a man of dazzling charm and style, and his talents were many. At the age of twenty he sent Vogue an out-of focus snap of a ... Read More
Overview :The only best-selling authors in Jane Austen's league in the English language today are Shakespeare and Dickens. In the twenty-first century... Read More
Overview :Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners is a light-hearted, insightful handbook written as if intended for her original Regency Era readers, and... Read More
Overview :Although she joked to her sister Cassandra, in a letter of 1813, "I do not despair of having my picture in the Exhibition at last--all white... Read More
Overview :A Feminist Critique of Police Stops examines the parallels between stop-and-frisk policing and sexual harassment. Law professor Josephine Ro... Read More
Overview :"Splendid stuff, 'history with attitude.' Written with energy and aplomb." --The Times (London)The colorful, often tempestuous courtships of... Read More