Katherine Hobbs

Katherine Hobbs

 

Katherine Hobbs is a public historian and 19th-century scholar with a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. Her writing has appeared in publications including English Literary History, Women’s Writing, Brontë Studies and Women’s History Today. You can learn more about her work at historyhobbs.com.

A pair of illustrations from Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White, which launched the sensation novel trend of the 1860s

The Sensation Novelist Who Exposed the Plight of Victorian Women

Wilkie Collins drew on his legal training to dramatize the inequality caused by outdated laws regarding marital and property rights

Mina’s goal was to keep the home—and women—central in modern society. Building on the home economists who came before her, she sought to define women’s work as work rather than a vague, idealized calling.

Mina Miller Edison Was Much More Than the Wife of the 'Wizard of Menlo Park'

The second wife of Thomas Edison, she viewed domestic labor as a science, calling herself a "home executive"

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