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What Legendary 19th-Century Women Really Looked Like vs. Their Idealized Paintings

As we scroll through our social media feeds today, we’re bombarded with countless images enhanced by modern photo editing tools. But the desire to perfect one’s appearance isn’t new. In the past, ...
Time

#Tradwife Influencers Totally Misunderstand the Lives of 19th Century Women

Influencers organizing around the hashtag #Tradwife have claimed the mantle of historical memory by tracing a line from Victorian wives and mothers to idealized 1950s housewives to themselves. They ...
NJ.com

Ballantine mansion recalls Black Women of the 19th Century

Reimagine America dining room at Ballantine House. Ballantine House, a 19th Century beer mansion that's part of the Newark Museum of Art. Apart from the 19th Century B\W exhibit, the mansion's ...
Hyperallergic

After Her Work Was Misattributed to Men, a 19th-Century Woman Gets Her Due

Caroline Louisa Daly, “A Whale Stranded In Tracadie Harbour, North Side Of P.E.I” (September 1858), watercolor on paper (courtesy Confederation Centre Art Gallery) Daly, who lived from 1832 to 1893, ...
The Conversation

How English women wrote about their travels in the 19th century

Victoria Puchal Terol does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...
CNN

‘The Hesitant Fiancée’s’ 19th-century eye roll is connecting with fed-up women on TikTok

Though she’s dressed in an opulent, fur-trimmed gown in a palatial French home sometime in the mid-19th century, her silent fury is recognizable to women the world over who’ve contained their ire to ...
Irish Central

"Bad Bridget" book explores how Irish women dominated 19th-century North American prisons

A book offering a captivating account of the often-ignored and moving story of how Irish women dominated North American prisons in the 19th century is the perfect read this St. Brigid's Day Bank ...