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SUFFOLK, Massachusetts in the 1880s: 1 through 3 of 3

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  1. Women Entering the Business Sphere: Analyzes The Washington Post article, "Women in Business" in comparison to Shelley's, Learning to Stand and Speak.
    date 1880 to 1881map SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags Careers, Business, Washington Post, Education, House, women's rights, Women

    In the late 18th to early 19th century, women began to explore their intellectual talents outside of the education field. The Washington Post (1877-1954) published an article titled Women in Business, expressing the purpose of the exhibit mounted by the League of Business and Professional Women. The goal was to help others, specifically women, appreciate their business skills and embark in professional...

  2. More to the WCTU than Meets the Eye
    date 1883map SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags Temperance Movement, Temperance, woman's suffrage

    In a letter to a temperance friend in the late 1800’s Francis Parkman, a Temperance supporter, called a woman who was part of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union out on what he thought the Temperance Movement was about. He writes to the woman saying that temperance was nothing more than, “A wedge to universal woman suffrage”. In the late 1800‘s people began to become concerned with the...

  3. Boston's Predicament: Women in the City
    date August 18, 1889map SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/Boosterism, Women

    According to the Boston Daily Globe of August 18, 1889, "Too Good to Lose Are Boston's Surplus Women." This article pertains to a matter of utmost importance, the eligible bachelors of the Wild West heroically discovering a solution for the "marriageable femininity" and the "confoundly delicate matter" of the over 80,000 surplus of women in Massachusetts. Belle Eyre even reports that these men are...