Monthly Archive: October 2017
Dallel Sarnou Published Online: 2017-10-12 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0014. Abstract In her latest novel Willow Trees Don’t Weep(2014), the writer Fadia Faqir decided to go against the grain as a Muslim woman coming from the Middle East but...
Joanne Paisana Published Online: 2017-10-18 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0015 Abstract The reforming work of Isabella Caroline Somerset (Lady Henry Somerset 1851-1921) is largely overlooked today. Dedicated to women’s causes at home and abroad and to temperance in particular,...
Kathryn Rachel Ferry Published Online: 2017-09-30 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0011 Interior design offered new members of the Victorian middle-class a means to demonstrate their success. Yet the choices they made in decorating domestic spaces could be harshly judged,...