Lives of Their Own: Norm-Defying Women During the Progressive Era (1890-1920)This exhibit explores the stories of women who did not conform to the pressures placed on middle and upper-middle class...
The Josephine Long Wishart Collection: Mother, Home, and HeavenAimed primarily at women, this collection is a monograph collection of popular advice literature. Books cover topics from cooking and cleaning to…
Social Culture: A Manual of Etiquette and DeportmentAnnie Randall White’s book is one of many popular etiquette manuals published during the Progressive Era that expounds on the appropriate behavior for…
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"Going into Society"This is Chapter 11 in the book Twentieth Century Etiquette. It explains the roles young women and young men can have when entering society in the…
Biographies of Good WivesL. Maria Child published, Biographies of Good Wives, for both the husbands of ‘good’ wives and aspiring ‘good’ wives in 1846. This collection of…
Lydia Maria Child PortraitA portrait of Lydia Maria Child