Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates; their novels highlight the fragility of public health today ...

Not only the courier post but also the possibility of transporting correspondence by stagecoach and even being delivered by mailmen emerged in the Prussian partition in the 19th century. The life of a ...

Best known for his translations of Wagner's prose works, Ellis also translated Wagner's letters to family and friends. In this 1899 publication, most of the letters are those which Wagner wrote to the ...