Posts Tagged ‘women in nineteenth century America’
From the Archives: Talking About Women’s History and Alias Agnes with Elizabeth De Wolfe
Sometimes plans go astray. I don’t have a new “Three Questions and an Answer” to share with you today. Luckily I have years of interviews that you may not have read the first time. I am pleased. Next up, historian and writing friend Elizabeth de Wolfe! * * * I have literally been waiting for…
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Alice Barber Stephens, Illustrator (Yes, Another One)
You may have noticed that I’ve been sharing the stories of women artists and illustrators over the last few months. I didn’t set out to look for them, but one woman led to another. Like women warriors, women journalists and women inventors, even women artists who were well known and successful in their time are…
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Madame Demorest, Women’s Magazines, and Fashion
In the mid-19th century, Ellen Curtis “Madame” Demorest (1824-1898), aided by her husband William, created a fashion and media empire in New York built on the growing magazine industry and the aspirations of middle-class women who wanted to reproduce current French couture at home, something that was previously only available to the wealthy. The connection…
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