Category: Women
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No Taxation without Representation!
“Lady Godiva, was an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to a legend dating back at least to the 13th century, rode naked – only covered in her long hair – through the streets of Coventry in order to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation imposed by her husband on his tenants. The name “Peeping…
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Famous for Riding a Horse Naked
Adah was a bright girl who told stories about herself. No one really knew where she’d come from in the late 1850’s but it didn’t matter. She’d arrived. She drank with Whitman, wrote semi-bad poetry and had a body . . . she had some body! Adah after leaving her husband (maybe her first) in…
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Pretty Is As Pretty Does; Kate Chase
Kate Chase’s mother died when she was five. Her father Salmon P. Chase had the unlucky habit of marrying women who up and died. Kate was named after Salmon’s first wife when Kate was born to his second wife. After the death of Kate’s mother (the second wife) he married yet again. A bunch of…
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The American Joan of Arc Goes Insane
Do you ever sometimes wish 19th century asylums still existed for those troublesome relatives who make family gatherings so trying? My great grandmother was sent to an asylum because she had lucrative properties in Jersey City, NJ. Her evil daughter (my grandmother’s sister) wanted the brownstones and vacant squares as an early inheritance so she…
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“A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.” CS Lewis
Photo courtesy of Chapman Historical Museum
Author Adrienne Morris 