Newsworthy Women on MSN

Forgotten Bestsellers: Women Who Dominated 19th-Century Bookshelves — Then Disappeared

Before Hemingway swaggered through Paris or Fitzgerald gilded the Jazz Age, women ruled American letters. In the mid-19th ...
Irish Central

"Bad Bridget" book explores how Irish women dominated 19th-century North American prisons

A book offering a captivating account of the often-ignored and moving story of how Irish women dominated North American prisons in the 19th century is the perfect read this St. Brigid's Day Bank ...
Cincinnati Magazine

Cincinnati’s First Women Candidates Were Too Radical For The Voters Of 1904

Harriett “Hattie” Fowler was a widow, aged 61, who lived with a sister in Over-the-Rhine. She was identified in the 1900 ...
Medicine Buffalo

Anderson Gallery presents exhibitions on Erie Canal, women in 19th-century asylums

Exhibitions marking the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal, as well as the histories of women institutionalized in 19th-century asylums will open in the UB Anderson Gallery on Sept. 12. “Eighty-Six ...
Marketplace

What female entrepreneurs of the 19th century can teach us about the modern economy

On “Marketplace,” we talk a lot about disaggregated economic data — that’s information about the economy broken down into categories such as race, gender, age and other variables. But much of that ...
Sun Journal

Goose Eye to feature Bethel’s 19th century women

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. At Bethel’s 1874 Centennial celebration on Bethel Common are, “16 young ...
mlive on MSN

Country’s 2nd oldest active women’s club to be inducted into Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame

The Kalamazoo Ladies’ Library Association has been named one of the seven inductees for the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame ...