Greetings! As I said earlier, throughout the summer, I will be posting transcripts from the diary of Susan B. Anthony, who with her fellow women’s rights activist Ernestine Rose visited Washington, D.C., and its environs in the spring of 1854. This is the third in the series. March 24 Directed tickets to Mrs. Rose meeting on […]
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As I mentioned in my last post, I am transcribing the portion of Susan B. Anthony’s diary in which Anthony details her trip to Washington, D.C., and thereabouts in 1854 with fellow women’s rights activist Ernestine Rose. As before, the entries are followed by my notations. March 22 Rainy & snowy this A.M. Mr. &
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In May 1855, American newspapers were abuzz with talk of a wedding. The bride and groom were not society folk or European royalty: they were Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell, abolitionists and women’s rights activists. Although in many ways their wedding ceremony was typical of the time—the bride wore a lovely dress, a clergyman performed the
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(This post originally appeared as a guest post on Linda Bennett Pennell’s blog, History Imagined.) In researching my historical novels set in nineteenth-century America, I have come across a number of people, now obscure, who deserve to be remembered for their heroism. One is David Ruggles, a black abolitionist. Born in Lyme, Connecticut, on March
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In 1851, a new word entered the fashion lexicon: the “Bloomer.” It referred not to undergarments but to what had been known previously by such names as the “reform dress” and the “Turkish dress”: essentially, a short dress paired with pantaloons, in place of the constricting women’s garments of the day. It would become associated
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On April 12, 1832, in New York City, thirty-year-old Robert Dale Owen married nineteen-year-old Mary Jane Robinson. The son of reformer and socialist Robert Owen, Robert Dale Owen shared his father’s views and was a writer and a publisher. He also served in the Indiana legislature and Congress, was the American ambassador to the Kingdom
Robert Dale Owen’s “Marriage Declaration.” Read More »