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Thursday, March 17, 2022

"The Most Extraordinary Person of the Age"

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By Nancy Bilyeau It was the spring of 1810. Ordinarily, the death in London of an 81-year-old French émigré of aristocratic birth who'd ...
Sunday, February 27, 2022

Lady Mary Wroth, Author and Courtier

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 By Lauren Gilbert Lady Mary Wroth c 1620 Born Mary Sidney, she was the daughter of Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester & Viscount de L’Isl...
Sunday, January 9, 2022

Unwanted Pregnancies in the Middle Ages

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by Jeri Westerson We’ve read about some pretty bold women in the Middle Ages; Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Elizabeth, Kathrine Swynford. They...
Tuesday, January 4, 2022

History for a New Year

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 by Debra Brown 2022 Greetings! The EHFA Blog will be bringing you occasional new posts once again. We are just organizing, and we appreciat...
Tuesday, December 29, 2020

An Amiable Wife

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 By Lauren Gilbert Portrait of Anne Law, nee' Towry, by John Linnell As a female, I cannot help being interested in the lives of women o...
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Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Behind the Scenes of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'

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by Nancy Bilyeau It may well be the most beloved Christmas story ever written. Charles Dickens' novella, originally titled Christmas ...
Tuesday, December 15, 2020

“Good fences make good neighbours”: Enclosure in Georgian England

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By Elizabeth Grant A lawn sweeping down to a stream, expanses of undulating turf dotted with clumps of trees rising to a wooded skyline, a b...