Kelly Marshall Most 19th-century schoolmistresses are long forgotten ... a University of Delaware art historian. At a time when women had almost no control over legal documents and played a ...

But nineteenth-century Americans were eager to represent ... The Beecher Sisters on Women's Rights and Woman’s Sphere." ...

In 19th-century Britain and North America, women were regarded as the ‘weaker sex’. Their ability to bear children gave rise to a feminine ideal based on marriage and motherhood, while their ...