Popular Culture
Selling Opportunity: A Q & A with Mary Lisa Gavenas
As those of you who have been hanging out here in the Margins know, I’ve been spending time over the last year thinking about women entrepreneurs. One of the most interesting things I’ve read on the subject is a new book by journalist Mary Lisa Gavenas: Selling Opportunity: the Story of Mary Kay. I am…
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Fanny Palmer: The Norman Rockwell of the Nineteenth Century?
If you grew up in the United States, you probably are familiar with the work of artist Frances Flora (Fanny) Bond Palmer (1812-1876), even though I suspect you’ve never heard of her. Fanny Palmer was born in Leicester, England, where she received her first training in art, specifically drawing, perspective and watercolor, at Mary Linwood’s…
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Lydia Pinkham: Women’s Health Entrepreneur
I recently spent a week in Maine, visiting my BFF from graduate school. We indulged in history nerdery. We binge-watched Ride or Die on Netflix.[1] We ate great food. And we talked about the ideas that are driving me these days: women artists, women entrepreneurs, and what a young woman from the Midwest would have…
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