Historical documents of the 18th century indicate clearly that in the epoch of the Enlighten-ment, Polish women had no legal standing. No radical efforts were undertaken at that time to attain them ...

In the eighteenth-century, women became highly involved in novel-writing. While women did not particularly write more novels over the course of the century, they were at least matching men or ...

Hannah Snell dressed as a man to sign up for the Sixth of Foot regiment in 1745 The story of an 18th Century woman who disguised herself as a man to join the army will be told as part of a ...