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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, ...
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 ...
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 ...

'Sanctified Sisters' of Belton defy 19th-century norms, pioneering women's independence in Texas history | Weird Wild West

As their numbers grew, the women made a bold decision: they would no longer live under the authority of “unsanctified” ...
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 ...
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 ...
Moviefone

Daring Women Doctors: Physicians in the 19th Century (2020)

Hidden in American history, all women's medical schools began to appear in the mid 19th century long before women had the right to vote or own property. "Daring Women Doctors" highlights the intrepid, ...
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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

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), ...
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Race and racism in nineteenth-century art the ascendency of Robert Duncanson, Edward Bannister, and Edmonia Lewis Naurice Frank Woods Jr. ; foreword by George Dimock

"Painters Robert Duncanson (ca. 1821-1872) and Edward Bannister (1828-1901) and sculptor Mary Edmonia Lewis (ca. 1844-1907) each became accomplished African American artists. But as emerging art ...
Catholic News Agency

Pope Leo XIV proposes 19th-century Indian religious as a model of women’s emancipation

Pope Leo XIV spoke of the beatification this week of Mother Elisva Vakha’i, a 19th-century Indian religious and founder of the Third Order of the Teresian Discalced Carmelites, highlighting her ...