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Author Archives: visnow77
New-York Tribune reports on the influenza epidemic of 1918
As U.S. women were struggling toward the vote, and World War I was nearing its end, an influenza pandemic broke out in 1918. The disease had hit earlier in the year and then passed, but in the fall, a more … Continue reading
Posted in health, history, Uncategorized
Tagged 1918, epidemic, influenza, journalism, New York referendum, pandemic, Spanish flu, suffrage, Trib
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Suffrage advertising gimmicks, plus civil disobedience
“Although the proposition that women should vote is seriously and profoundly true, it will at first be established…much as the virtues of a breakfast cereal are established, by affirmation.”–suffrage leader Harriot Stanton Blatch, daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Picture a … Continue reading
Posted in history, women's rights
Tagged activism, advertising, Alice Paul, civil disobedience, early 1900s, feminism, Harriot Stanton Blatch, suffrage
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Women’s clubs go mainstream
In addition to ads for baking powder, shoe polish, cloth (flannels, draperies, worsteds, gabardines), and other household products, The Register of Women’s Clubs contained advertising for educational offerings aimed at clubwomen. For instance, not every club had access to … Continue reading
Posted in history, women's rights
Tagged activism, clubwomen, feminism, self-improvement, study clubs
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Women who didn’t want the vote
It’s hard for us to imagine, in the modern world, that there were women who were aware of the suffrage movement in the 1800s and early 1900s and yet were not interested in gaining the right to vote. In fact, … Continue reading
Posted in history, women's rights
Tagged 19th amendment, activism, anti-suffrage, domestic feminism, feminism, Industrial Revolution, social reform, suffrage, women's clubs
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Clubwomen and the environment
In 1910, the official proceedings of the convention of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs reported: We read in the papers that every time one of the great Sunday journals of New York City is issued, thirteen acres of timberland are … Continue reading
Posted in genealogy, history, Uncategorized, women's rights
Tagged 1910, activism, conservation, environment, lumber, natural resources, nature, women's clubs, women's movement
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Clubs and women’s moral superiority
When the New York City Press Club gave a reception welcoming Charles Dickens to the U.S. in 1868, journalist Jane Cunningham Croly applied for a ticket. The all-male club treated her request as a joke. The invitation they eventually extended … Continue reading
Posted in genealogy, history, women's rights
Tagged activist, clubwomen, domestic feminism, feminism, journalism, Sorosis, women's clubs
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I hope my great-grandmother isn’t mad at me
Dear Great-grandmother Mary, I hope you’re not upset. You might actually be flattered that I used you as the model for Abbie Bergholtz, one of the protagonists in my historical novel, To March or to Marry. In 1911, Abbie joins … Continue reading
Posted in genealogy, history
Tagged Athenaeum, Bronx, feminism, letters, suffrage, women's clubs, women's rights
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Election Day romance
Before the commercialization of Christmas took hold, before the Easter bunny was born, and before Thanksgiving became a pig-out, Election Day was America’s big, festive holiday. Amid the Election Day celebration of 1899, my great-grandparents’ courtship began. The history of … Continue reading
The Halfway Café
Here is a podcast of my short story, “The Halfway Café,” narrated by a dead woman and examining such questions as: Do our ancestors watch us? Why would they care if we mourn? An outtake from my mystery novel, Stone’s House, it … Continue reading
Posted in death, Uncategorized
Tagged afterlife, indigenous teachings, ourgatory, short story, storytelling
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What’s a pandy? Who’s the tucker?
Wed. May 25th [1892] ….After tea we took a walk to the coal pit from which place we could see the Pandy & Alltiago farm. We got a glass of fresh milk at the Alltiago farm….Continuing our walk we went … Continue reading
Posted in genealogy, history
Tagged ancestors, diary, family history, Pontardulais, Victorian era, WAles
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