The plot of An Ideal Husband isn’t as absurd as that of Oscar Wilde’s best-known play, The Importance of Being Earnest — there’s no mention, for instance, of a baby in a carpet bag — but it’s still a ...

Admittedly, I am at the center of the demographic most likely to enjoy a memoir about having a passionate attachment to a female Victorian novelist, but “The Victorian and the Romantic,” a new book by ...

Along with the Roman goddess of marriage, Juno, Valentine’s Day honors the Christian martyr St. Valentine. Persecuted by the Roman Emperor in A.D. 273, St. Valentine enjoys a legacy that has been ...

On the surface, Anne Hathaway and Charlie Hunnam embody very different spheres of Hollywood storytelling. The latter's well-known roles in action-packed projects like Sons of Anarchy and Pacific Rim ...

Romance for the Victorians could be a dramatic and dangerous affair according to sensational newspaper reports of the time, writes Jeremy Clay. Life hadn't been kind to Jack McKenna. His wife ran off ...

A SECRET cache of letters exposing intimate details of the scandalous Victorian love triangle involving Scottish aristocrat Effie Gray are being put up for auction. The letters by prominent art critic ...