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Advice For "Ugly Girls" From An 1870s Magazine

Victorian Rules for Sex, Marriage and Being A Good Wife

Was Anne Of Cleves Really "Too Ugly" For Henry VIII To Sleep With?

How The Police Made Margaret Hennessey Afraid To Go Outside

The Author Who Used Her Pulitzer Money To Secretly Help Her Haters

The Little Girl Who Was Mailed To Her Grandma For 53 Cents By Parcel Post

She Dumped Her Cheating Husband And Became The First Woman To Win A Pulitzer

"Witch Wants To Dig, Let Her Dig Straight To Hell," They Said

How The Half Hanged Witch of Hadley Inspired The Handmaid's Tale

Real Dating Ads From the 1880s. You Couldn’t Make These Up if You Tried

5 Brilliant And Talented Women Who Inspired Disney’s Cruelest Villains

The Netflix Marilyn Movie Is An Insult and Abomination

People Hated Mary Shelley So Much You’d Think She Was The Horrible Monster

Victorian Dresses Were Beautiful Death Traps

I Did Not Expect To Be In Awe Of Someone Called “Chicken Lady.”

Joseph Pulitzer Told Her To Get Thrown In An 1887 Insane Asylum. She Did

A Judge Called Mary Bell A Monster When She Was Just 10 Years Old

They Gave Her A Lobotomy So Her Brother Could Be President

They Say Marilyn Monroe’s Mother Was Insane. I’m Not So Sure.

Real Dating Advice From A 1938 Magazine. Lol The Pics.

Snow White Was Real and The Magic Mirror Was Creepy and Weird

One Stubborn Woman Might Finally Have Proof Marilyn Was Murdered

10 Dumb and Deadly Things Victorian Women Did To Be Prettier

Why Lucy Christiana Invented Better Underpants

No, Anne Boleyn Was Not Black.

World’s Youngest Mother Had A Baby At 5 And Doesn’t Want To Talk About It

Natural Beauty Rituals of 7 of the World’s Most Beautiful Women

An 1889 Magazine Asked Single Women Why They Aren’t Married and Ouch, The Replies

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