Elisabeth Anthony Dexter, Ph.D. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1924. 8vo. xviii+204 pp. $5.00. IN spite of the position of woman in America and the extraordinary diligence which has been shown in ...
A young New Yorker’s letter to her cousin in London showed how colonial women in the late 1700s were waging their own battles ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a library full of computers and people wearing hoodies and sneakers stood a woman who appeared to have come straight from the ...
In the heart of Colonial Williamsburg, the different roles women played in 18th-century society are evident. There are costumed interpreters like Deirdre Jones Cardwell and Katharine Pittman, who tell ...
In October 1774, Penelope Barker did what women of her time and social class weren’t raised to do: figuratively, rather than literally, stir the pot. The 46-year-old wife of a Colonial agent tasked ...
"Less celebrated than their male counterparts, women have been vital contributors to the arts. Works by women of the colonial era represent treasured accomplishments of American culture and still ...
When I was a child growing up in Kolkata, I would hear stories about the European colonisation of Bengal – the precolonial name of India’s West Bengal. These were selective narratives from a ...
Leaders of the Aba women’s protest against a tyranical warrant chief in Nigeria in 1929. National Museum of Unity, Nigeria Selected petitions and written correspondence between Igbo women and British ...
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