In her 1929 essay “Women and Fiction,” Virginia Woolf declared that in the 19th century “a woman lived almost solely in her home and her emotions.” Male novelists could derive inspiration from ...
Once, when Jane A. Porter was visiting Europe in the late 19th century, someone asked her if she had ever seen Niagara Falls. "Seen them?" she allegedly replied. "Why, I own them." She wasn't kidding.