Elizabeth Dunn
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5 Things Victorian Women Didn’t Do (Much)
1. They didn’t die young. People lived to an average age of just 40 in 19th-century England, but that number is deceiving. Certainly, infants and children died of disease, malnutrition and mishaps at much higher rates than they do today. But if a girl managed to survive to ...read more
5 19th-Century Utopian Communities in the United States
1. Brook Farm (1841-1846): The Transcendentalist Romance The philosophical movement known as Transcendentalist was in full swing when Unitarian minister George Ripley founded Brook Farm in the rural Boston suburb of West Roxbury in 1841. The community wasn’t particularly unique ...read more