During her lifetime, Emily Dickinson was better known as a gardener than as a poet. With the New York Botanical Garden’s multi-venue exhibition, Emily Dickinson’s Garden: The Poetry of Flowers, discover the renowned poet’s life …

Unable to visit the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to experience one of the most visually dramatic exhibitions of women’s antique and vintage fashion? Try the next best thing to being there!
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Following a £1.4 million redevelopment, the Florence Nightingale Museum re-opened on May 12, the birth date of the Lady of the Lamp. Her greatest achievement was to transform nursing into a respectable profession for women and in 1860, she established the first professional training school for nurses, the Nightingale Training School at St Thomas’ Hospital.

The straw boater was the rage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Men of all classes appreciated the light, cool, comfortable qualities of the straw hat. In general, the boater was made of …