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

Modern medicine has enabled citizens of wealthy, industrialized nations to forget that children once routinely died in ...

Victorian novels chronicle the terrible grief of losing children. Depicting the cruelty of diseases largely unfamiliar today, they also warn against being lulled into thinking that child deaths ...

Teaching 19th-century English literature, I regularly encounter gutting ... In the chill of a Victorian bedroom, she slips under Helen’s blankets and tries to stifle her own sobs as Helen ...