Poor, sad Lady Edith. Early on in "Downton Abbey," the PBS "Masterpiece Classic" family saga, it seemed that the much-overlooked, undervalued middle sister of the Crawley clan had been dealt a rough ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every resident of Downton Abbey has experienced his or her fair share of drama during the show’s run. But few have suffered as ...

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, ...

For the first time, a Native Hawaiian woman is being featured on a U.S. coin. Edith Kanaka'ole played a key role in keeping many Hawaiian traditions alive. Here's Heidi Chang reporting from Honolulu.

There are people who, for reasons confounding and unfair, vanish under history’s dust. One of these is a woman named Edith Rockefeller McCormick, who lived from 1872 to 1932 and deserves, correctly ...