| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 260 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. New Century -- So-Called Twentieth Century -- Where the New Century Will Really Begin / John Ritchie, Jr. -- Progress of the American Woman / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Two Centuries and This Magazine / Edward Bok -- Last Day of the Nineteenth Century. The Form of Prayers used at St. Paul's -- Greetings for the New Century -- 2. Futures -- Twentieth Century Woman / Mrs. E. Lynn Linton -- Position of Woman in the Twentieth Century / Lady Henry Somerset -- Women in the Twentieth Century. A Forecast / Florence Balgarnie -- Twentieth Century Woman / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Future of Society / Lady Jeune -- What May Happen In The Next Hundred Years / John Elfreth Watkins, Jr. -- Courtship of Lord Arthur Armstrong / E.F. Benson -- 3. Retrospects -- Nineteenth Century Valedictory / H.B.B. -- Closing Century -- Its Losses and Its Gains -- American Women as Inventors / Elizabeth L. Banks -- 4. Politics -- Independent Woman / Annie S. Swan -- Woman Suffrage Movement / Helene Reinherz -- Why Women are Employed in Factories in the United States -- Unwomanly Employments / Priscilla E. Moulder -- Famous Women Dramatists -- Woman's International Conference / Sarah A. Tooley -- Old Women / Louisa Lawson -- Sovran Woman / Marie Corelli -- What We Women Owe Our Queen / Mrs. Henry Chetwynd -- 5. Colonials -- Besieged in Kumassi / Lady Hodgson -- Some Ladies of South Africa / Marie A. Belloc -- Women's Medical Work in India / Mrs. Frank Penny -- Pioneer Women In India: Being Outline Sketches Of Their Work And Life. 1 / Mrs. Diver -- Cruelty of Hindoo Child-Marriage / H.B.B. -- Cricket and the Lion. As Told by an Old Indian Woman from Mexico / Katherine A. Chandler -- Colonial Dame, Her "High Living" and her Noble Life / Ella Morris Kretschmar -- 6. War |
| Summary |
This unique collection of extracts is taken from women's journals and magazines - both British and American - on the eve of the twentieth century. Arranged by subject, the collection focuses on what this pivotal moment represented for women and includes an introduction to women's journalism of the period. The rapidly changing conditions then surrounding a woman's world are illustrated here by sections on: * monarchy * women and war * colonial women * the politics of emancipation * and girlhood |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-256) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Women -- History -- Sources
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Females -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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Females
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Women
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Frauenliteratur
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Journalismus
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Anthologie
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Vrouwenemancipatie.
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Vrouwen.
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Journalistiek proza.
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Englisch.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Sources
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Varty, Anne.
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| ISBN |
9780203013892 |
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0203013891 |
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9780415195447 |
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0415195446 |
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9780415195454 |
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0415195454 |
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9781134645930 |
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1134645937 |
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0203205936 |
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9780203205938 |
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9781134645886 |
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1134645880 |
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9781134645923 |
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1134645929 |
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1282319892 |
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9781282319899 |
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9786612319891 |
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6612319895 |
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