Tag: 19th Century Fashion

• 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 […]

  Adrienne Morris

  March 24, 2015

  United States History, Women

  19th century, 19th Century Fashion, beautiful women, civil war women, intelligent women who marry alcoholics, kate chase, Marriage, motherhood, stepmothers are evil

• Differences Between Boys and Girls

     

  Adrienne Morris

  March 10, 2015

  Beautiful Images, inspirational, Writing

  19th Century Fashion, 19th century school, boys and girls are different, coed education, gender differences, photography vintage, Writing, writing believable characters

• “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

  Adrienne Morris

  March 4, 2015

  Beautiful Images, Men, Quotes, Women

  19th century dating, 19th Century Fashion, 19th century photos, CS Lewis, gender differences, quotes about men and women, selfishness in relationships

• Books I’ve Known And Loved

  Victoria Woodhull not only ran for president, but worked on Wall Street and hung out with Cornelius Vanderbilt. Gives the notion that all Victorian women were trapped a run for its money.

  Adrienne Morris

  November 24, 2013

  Books I’ve Known and Loved, History, The Unknowable Past

  19th Century Fashion, 19th Century Women’s Fashion, Books, Fashion, Feminism, Mary Gabriel, Notorious Victoria, Victoria Woodhull