Women - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project
29 Dec 2024 at 7:29pm
Among those pioneering national and local change in the 1800s are educator-abolitionist (and state heroine) Prudence Crandall and women?s suffrage advocate Isabella Beecher Hooker. Twentieth-century notables include Mary Townsend Seymour , champion of African Americans? civil rights, and Ella Grasso , first woman to be elected a US governor ...
Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Connecticut History
4 Jan 2025 at 9:14am
A Prolific Writer on Women?s Issues. In her famous treatise, Women and Economics (1898), Gilman theorized that women could never be truly independent until they first had economic freedom. While many of these themes were explored through her lectures and papers (Gilman produced more than a thousand works of non-fiction), they also permeated ...
Catharine Beecher, Champion of Women?s Education
20 Dec 2024 at 3:48am
By the time Catharine followed her father, the famous preacher Lyman Beecher, West to Ohio in 1831, the seminary had become one of the premier women?s schools in the United States In Cincinnati, she founded another women?s school, the Western Female Institute, but this endeavor was short lived due to the lack of financial support resulting ...
Ida Tarbell: The Woman Who Took On Standard Oil
5 Jan 2025 at 5:48pm
Ida Tarbell was one of the most famous muckrakers. Born in 1857 in a log cabin in Hatch Hollow, Pennsylvania, Tarbell?s first dream was to be a scientist. She studied biology at Allegheny College but science as a professional field was largely closed to women in the late 19th century.
Emmeline Pankhurst?s ?Freedom or Death? Speech Energizes Connecticut ...
4 Jan 2025 at 5:10am
On July 2, 1928, the English Parliament granted women the same voting rights as men. Emmeline Pankhurst, however, did not live to see her activism come to fruition as she died several weeks earlier. Women in the United States earned the right to vote eight years prior when Congress ratified the 19th amendment on August 18, 1920.
Sophia Woodhouse Welles: Wethersfield?s World-Famous Bonnet Maker
3 Jan 2025 at 8:20pm
Wethersfield?s Sophia Woodhouse Welles made a name for herself as an inventor and a businesswoman in antebellum America when few women worked outside the home or earned a wage. Welles?s methods for producing bonnets not only provided high-quality fashionable products in the United States, but they also influenced the industry at the ...
Katharine Hepburn Born ? Today in History: May 12
1 Jan 2025 at 6:50pm
She was famous for her beauty and her independence, wearing pants and men?s caps when other Hollywood stars wore dresses and matching hats, and for her unconventional attitudes. Her on-screen liaison with Spencer Tracy became a personal relationship that lasted from 1941 until his death in 1967, though they never married and spent a lot of ...
Rosa Ponselle: Meriden?s Famous Musical Daughter
3 Jan 2025 at 10:15pm
December 12, 2023 ? Emergence of Modern America 1890-1930, Great Depression and World War II 1929-1945, Arts, Popular Culture, Women, Meriden Romano Romani and Rosa Ponselle - Wikimedia Commons, Library of Congress
[Archived] Ida Tarbell: The Woman Who Took On Standard Oil
28 Dec 2024 at 8:42pm
She also accepted an offer from McClure to work for his new venture, McClure?s Magazine, where she undertook her most famous work, her expose of John D. Rockefeller?s Standard Oil Company. Her study of Rockefeller?s practices as he built Standard Oil into one of the world?s largest business monopolies took many years to complete.
The Decorative Arts of Connecticut
3 Jan 2025 at 10:22pm
Needlework and Textiles: A Window into Women?s History. Textiles, including bedding, towels, carpets, and clothing, were among the most valuable items in the 18th-century household. Largely produced by women and girls at home, these fabrics document the industry and aspirations of their makers.
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29 Dec 2024 at 7:29pm
Among those pioneering national and local change in the 1800s are educator-abolitionist (and state heroine) Prudence Crandall and women?s suffrage advocate Isabella Beecher Hooker. Twentieth-century notables include Mary Townsend Seymour , champion of African Americans? civil rights, and Ella Grasso , first woman to be elected a US governor ...
Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Connecticut History
4 Jan 2025 at 9:14am
A Prolific Writer on Women?s Issues. In her famous treatise, Women and Economics (1898), Gilman theorized that women could never be truly independent until they first had economic freedom. While many of these themes were explored through her lectures and papers (Gilman produced more than a thousand works of non-fiction), they also permeated ...
Catharine Beecher, Champion of Women?s Education
20 Dec 2024 at 3:48am
By the time Catharine followed her father, the famous preacher Lyman Beecher, West to Ohio in 1831, the seminary had become one of the premier women?s schools in the United States In Cincinnati, she founded another women?s school, the Western Female Institute, but this endeavor was short lived due to the lack of financial support resulting ...
Ida Tarbell: The Woman Who Took On Standard Oil
5 Jan 2025 at 5:48pm
Ida Tarbell was one of the most famous muckrakers. Born in 1857 in a log cabin in Hatch Hollow, Pennsylvania, Tarbell?s first dream was to be a scientist. She studied biology at Allegheny College but science as a professional field was largely closed to women in the late 19th century.
Emmeline Pankhurst?s ?Freedom or Death? Speech Energizes Connecticut ...
4 Jan 2025 at 5:10am
On July 2, 1928, the English Parliament granted women the same voting rights as men. Emmeline Pankhurst, however, did not live to see her activism come to fruition as she died several weeks earlier. Women in the United States earned the right to vote eight years prior when Congress ratified the 19th amendment on August 18, 1920.
Sophia Woodhouse Welles: Wethersfield?s World-Famous Bonnet Maker
3 Jan 2025 at 8:20pm
Wethersfield?s Sophia Woodhouse Welles made a name for herself as an inventor and a businesswoman in antebellum America when few women worked outside the home or earned a wage. Welles?s methods for producing bonnets not only provided high-quality fashionable products in the United States, but they also influenced the industry at the ...
Katharine Hepburn Born ? Today in History: May 12
1 Jan 2025 at 6:50pm
She was famous for her beauty and her independence, wearing pants and men?s caps when other Hollywood stars wore dresses and matching hats, and for her unconventional attitudes. Her on-screen liaison with Spencer Tracy became a personal relationship that lasted from 1941 until his death in 1967, though they never married and spent a lot of ...
Rosa Ponselle: Meriden?s Famous Musical Daughter
3 Jan 2025 at 10:15pm
December 12, 2023 ? Emergence of Modern America 1890-1930, Great Depression and World War II 1929-1945, Arts, Popular Culture, Women, Meriden Romano Romani and Rosa Ponselle - Wikimedia Commons, Library of Congress
[Archived] Ida Tarbell: The Woman Who Took On Standard Oil
28 Dec 2024 at 8:42pm
She also accepted an offer from McClure to work for his new venture, McClure?s Magazine, where she undertook her most famous work, her expose of John D. Rockefeller?s Standard Oil Company. Her study of Rockefeller?s practices as he built Standard Oil into one of the world?s largest business monopolies took many years to complete.
The Decorative Arts of Connecticut
3 Jan 2025 at 10:22pm
Needlework and Textiles: A Window into Women?s History. Textiles, including bedding, towels, carpets, and clothing, were among the most valuable items in the 18th-century household. Largely produced by women and girls at home, these fabrics document the industry and aspirations of their makers.
WHAT IS THIS? This is an unscreened compilation of results from several search engines. The sites listed are not necessarily recommended by Surfnetkids.com.
