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Tag Archives: feminism
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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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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The rich legacy of childless women
Rummaging through my family tree, I always feel a bit sad when I come across childless women. In the context of genealogy, it seems regrettable that they lack descendants to honor them. On the other hand, in the 19th and … Continue reading
Posted in genealogy, history, Uncategorized
Tagged ancestors, feminism, feminist, Hagerstown, Maryland, Victorian era
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Byrdcliffe Connection
I share a common ancestor, Abraham Dickerman, with the feminist writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who lived from 1860 to 1935. Abraham’s great-great-grandson was the Yale-educated minister Lyman Beecher, father of 13 children, including abolitionist preacher Henry Ward Beecher, feminist educator … Continue reading
Posted in genealogy, history
Tagged ancestors, Byrdcliffe, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, feminism, The Yellow Wallpaper, Victorian era, Woodstock
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