Between the ages of eighteen and fifty-four, Nadia does not for a single moment not have an admirer or a boyfriend or a better half. Then her husband disappears forever.

In mid-February 1889, two Presbyterian missionaries — 31-year-old John W. Heron, who served as physician for the foreign ...

The Barrymore family, once known as “The Royal Family of the American Stage,” has spawned several generations of actors ...