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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 early twentieth century. It reviews how women should dress and behave at social events. This chapter…

L. Maria Child published, Biographies of Good Wives, for both the husbands of ‘good’ wives and aspiring ‘good’ wives in 1846. This collection of biographies was created to serve as an example to affluent, white women across America in the 17th…

A portrait of Lydia Maria Child

A portrait of William B. Sprague

This painting depicts an outdoor 1819 preaching sermon organized by Methodists as part of the second great awakening.

A guide written by a woman for women working in the household. Most of the book consists of recipes but there is also several sections on keeping a clean house.

The Print shows an African American man playing a fiddle and, in reaction, the family dances.

satirical cartoon on the consequences of giving women the right to vote

Satirical cartoon by Charles Dana Gibson that argues against the practice of arranged marriages, particularly on grounds of wealth or aristocratic title.