Added on September 23, 2019 Historical essay “Immoderate Menses” or Abortion? Bodily Knowledge and Illicit Intimacy in an 1851 Divorce Trial In 1851, four years after actress Josephine Clifton’s death, she was named as one of Edwin Forrest’s adulterers during the […]
Added on February 8, 2018 Historical essay “Instruction which she should avoid”: Reflections on 1830s Theater Manager Thomas Hamblin in the #MeToo Era In June 1838, actress Josephine Clifton canceled an engagement in Lexington, KY and rushed back to New York “in a […]