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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 ...
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These Stunning 19th-Century Artworks Reveal the Contradictions of the Modern Woman
bourgeois women, whom he depicted in an array of settings that reflected the many facets of modern life in the late 19th ...
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A 19th-Century Textile Stitches a Tale of Women’s Liberation
Kelly Marshall Most 19th-century schoolmistresses are long ... a University of Delaware art historian. At a time when women had almost no control over legal documents and played a second-class ...
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‘Bright Circle’ and ‘Margaret Fuller’: The Rise of the Transcendental Woman
Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism” is a tribute to a set of 19th-century women who made an art of contrarian thinking. They had strong reasons to do so, as the most brilliant of ...