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These Stunning 19th-Century Artworks Reveal the Contradictions of the Modern Woman

A new exhibition spotlights James Tissot, whose paintings and prints reflected women’s ever-evolving roles in Victorian society Brigit Katz - Correspondent Works like Tissot's The Convalescent (1872), ...
The Conversation

The Glasgow Lock Hospital for Unfortunate Females was supposed to help vulnerable girls and women in the 19th century – instead it continued their abuse

Anni Donaldson is a member of a University of Strathclyde working group of academics, students, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and The Women's Support Project which aims to ...
The Conversation

History under the floorboards: decoding the diets of institutionalised women in 19th century Sydney

Kimberley Connor has previously been a member of the Great Irish Famine Commemoration Committee which preserves the history of the Irish Orphan Girls at Hyde Park Barracks. Sydney’s Hyde Park Barracks ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How Women in New Jersey Gained—and Lost—the Right to Vote More Than a Century Before the 19th Amendment Granted Suffrage Nationwide

An 1880 Harper's Weekly illustration titled Women at the Polls in New Jersey in the Good Old Times Historica Graphica Collection / Heritage Images / Getty Images The first New Jersey State ...
Medicine Buffalo

Anderson Gallery presents exhibitions on Erie Canal, women in 19th-century asylums

Exhibitions marking the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal, as well as the histories of women institutionalized in 19th-century asylums will open in the UB Anderson Gallery on Sept. 12. “Eighty-Six ...
Essence

How 'The Gilded Age' Costumes Center Upper Class Black Women From The 19th Century

Since Peggy’s father, Arthur Scott (John Douglas Thompson), is a pharmacist, their costuming reflects the upper-middle class norms at the time: Arthur dons perfectly tailored suits while Peggy is ...