In 1845 Greeley published Fuller's landmark book, "Woman in the Nineteenth Century," which argued for women's equality in all aspects of life. Fuller traveled to Europe in 1846, becoming the first ...

The young woman was one of the nation’s so-called girl stunt reporters, female newspaper writers in the 1880s ... It was the heyday of the 19th-century daily newspaper. As new technology made ...

Never mind Hawthorne and Thoreau— the women of mid-19th century New England had their own ambitions for writing and life.

Kelly Marshall Most 19th-century schoolmistresses ... At a time when women had almost no control over legal documents and played a second-class role in literature and the arts, Leah’s ...

Women had to wait another couple of centuries for cookbooks to develop, and they only started to write down recipes they had collected in the 19th century. Such literature was aimed at a female ...

But his deeply satisfying “Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism” is a tribute to a set of 19th-century women ... of American literature at the University ...