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Emmeline Pankhurst sufragette who fought for the right for women to vote

The teenage queen was embraced by France in 1770. Twenty-three years later, she lost her head to the guillotine. (But she never said, "Let them eat cake")

Greetings, friends! We are back today with another foray into how art history and fashion history converge. Recently, on our Instagram account, we shared a cheeky little post featuring the painting Hearing: The Five Senses by Henri Guillaume Schlesinger. This example of genre painting is

Hulu's "The Great" offers an irreverent, ahistorical take on the Russian empress' life. This is the real history behind the period comedy

King Henry VIII had six wives, but none of them have captured the public's imagination like the second, Anne Boleyn.

Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, French painter, one of the most successful women artists (unusually so for her time), especially known for her portraits of women. She notably painted Marie-Antoinette more than 20 times and made numerous self-portraits. Learn more about Vigee-Lebrun’s life and work.

In 1903 Curie was awarded a Noble Prize in physics for her work on radioactivity, and 1911 she received a second Nobel Prize in chemistry for her study of the elements polonium and radium.

No, Mom, my bisexuality is not a "youthful phase."

Children, mothers, aunts, half-sisters, cousins, in-laws.... (And what's the daughter of a half-sister? A "half-niece"...?) Prince ...