The first half of the 19th century was a time of great change. Industrialization brought new opportunities for employment, changing ideas of work, and economic cycles of boom and bust. During this ...

Marriage for working-class women was an economic necessity in 19th-century Britain, as they rarely earned enough to support themselves, let alone any children. For widows, children could be ...

By the second half of the 19th century, the pace of life in Europe ... police in port and garrison towns to detain any woman suspected of sex work and force her to submit to an invasive medical ...

Her dream of finding work as a writer seemed distant when ... In 1845 Greeley published Fuller's landmark book, "Woman in the Nineteenth Century," which argued for women's equality in all aspects ...

are forced to do both men’s and women’s work. This book is dedicated to them and I hope it will prove useful, as I sincerely wish to assist them in these tasks’. Books by the most popular Polish ...

Miller addressed the Pennsylvania General Assembly on June 24, 1919, when its members voted to ratify the 19th Amendment ... Clark said the work women did a century ago is finally coming to ...