On 9 January 1923 Edith Thompson and her lover Frederick Bywaters were executed for the murder of her husband, even though there was no evidence she knew he would be stabbed. Why was she convicted, ...

Another season of Downton Abbey has come to a close, and once again, Lady Edith is unlucky. Unlucky in love, unlucky in life. She's unluckier than Bates, and he went to jail for something he didn't do ...

Universal Pictures has entered a first-look deal with Edith’s Daughter, Cynthia Erivo‘s production company. This new pact expands upon the creative relationship between the Oscar nominated and Tony, ...

Kelcie Mattson is a Senior Features author at Collider. Based in the Midwest, she also contributes Lists, reviews, and television recaps. A lifelong fan of niche sci-fi, epic fantasy, Final Girl ...

Edith Renfrow Smith, the first Black woman to graduate from Grinnell College in Iowa and a longtime Chicago schoolteacher, remained mentally sharp well past 100, becoming the subject for medical ...

A new book about the first lady reveals how she and the ailing President Woodrow Wilson silenced their critics Rebecca Boggs Roberts - Author, Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of ...

For the first time, the U.S. Mint is featuring a Native Hawaiian woman on a quarter. Edith Kanakaʻole was a Hawaiian cultural icon, teacher and composer. The Edith Kanakaʻole Quarter is the seventh ...

In her day, the famed costume designer ruled at Paramount, dressing everyone from Grace Kelly to Elizabeth Taylor — all the while savvily self-promoting and getting her way. By THR Staff Novak’s ...

With war raging in Europe and his beloved wife Ellen dead, Woodrow Wilson was a lonely and unhappy man. But all of that changed one afternoon in 1915, when the doors of the White House elevator opened ...

Although Mary has done her best over the six seasons of Downton Abbey to make her middle sister's life miserable, all of that changed in the series finale. After ruining Edith's relationship with ...