In Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Cindy Weinstein radically revises our understanding of nineteenth-century sentimental literature in the United States. She ...

Eighteenth-century Quaker women exercised more responsibility in the family and in economic matters ... The affluent but plain-style of life led by the young Susan B. Anthony illustrates the ...

the lives of nineteenth-century women were deeply shaped by the so-called “cult of true womanhood,” a collection of attitudes that associated “true” womanhood with the home and family.

The story of an enslaved American woman who visited an English village in the 19th Century has ... the tavern-owning Horniblow family. Later she said she lived "a life of misery" as she suffered ...

In this first of a multi-part series "The Birth of the Women's Movement", The American Tapestry Project examines the life and times of those 19th century women who fought for women's rights by ...