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By Rachel Vorona Cote, Illustration by Johanna Goodman

The Rise of the Feminist Anachronistic Costume Drama

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Issue: Spring 2021 / Volume 97/1

Published: March 24, 2021

Rachel Vorona Cote

Rachel Vorona Cote is the author of Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today (Grand Central, 2020). Her work has also appeared in the Nation, Jezebel, and the Poetry Foundation, among other venues. She teaches a nonfiction-writing course through Catapult.

Johanna Goodman

Johanna Goodman is an artist and illustrator based in New York. Her work has been widely exhibited and published by clients including the New York Times, Glamour, and the Atlantic. Her current personal-collage project, The Catalogue of Imaginary Beings, explores themes of the individual in history, fashion...

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