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The Roanoke News, Weldon, North Carolina, August 12, 1909
What would you think of a woman who addressed a club meeting of men by telling them how charming, how well gowned, how pretty, they were?
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The Roanoke News, Weldon, North Carolina, August 12, 1909
What would you think of a woman who addressed a club meeting of men by telling them how charming, how well gowned, how pretty, they were?
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Women picketers, Pittsburgh, June 1914
The Wichita Daily Eagle, Kansas, January 2, 1921
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The Wichita Daily Eagle, Kansas, December 25, 1920
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Battle Creek Enquirer, Michigan, August 8, 1920
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Boston Post, Massachusetts, December 14, 1920
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, October 14, 1906
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The Cincinnati Enquirer, Ohio, February 18, 1913
“Girls must not chew gum in public, wear large hats, be flippant, play bridge nor attend suffrage meetings. They must have good domestic educations, be able to sing, play the piano and must have worked long enough to know the value of a dollar.”
Professor Griffith’s drawing class, Junction City, Kansas, 1915
The North Carolinian, Elizabeth City, May 3, 1876
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The new female instructor; or, Young woman’s guide to domestic happiness, 1824
Writing form letters: how a young lady may beg her mother to allow her to learn math.
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The new female instructor; or, Young woman’s guide to domestic happiness, 1824
She who throws off her modesty either in her words or her dress, will not be thought to set much value upon it in her actions.
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Brooklyn Life, New York, April 20, 1912
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, November 15, 1896
The evidence again lifts the veil from certain features of social life in Great Britain and reveals the mode of life of some of the so-called “fast set” of the aristocracy. The wife, it was shown, upon occasions, came down to dinner in red satin “knickers,” otherwise “bloomers,” and her husband’s smoking jacket, and frequently called her better half a “d–n fool.”
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, October 25, 1896
Our sisters, who threaten our scalps,
Have taken to climbing the Alps;
And this, though it vex all the masculine wrecks,
Most certainly proves the Ascent of the Sex.