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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, ...
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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 ...
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), ...
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 ...
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, ...
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Book Review: 'The Good Country' a wide-ranging look at 19th-century Midwest life

“The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest, 1800–1900” by Jon K. Lauck, University of Oklahoma Press. The park's tallest dunes can reach heights upwards of 200 feet tall. Several times in ...
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 ...