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Women -- Social conditions

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Jennie M. Bromley Butler diary

 Collection — Box BW 59: [Barcode: X031674512], Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16884
Content Description This collection contains the diary of Jennie M. Bromley Butler (1860-1948) who lived in Rockville, Connecticut. The diary documents her life after returning from her honeymoon with her husband, Edward Butler, and their first decade of marriage. The entries are dated from 1887 to 1898. She records her traveling experiences, including their honeymoon trip to Montreal, other trips to New York and Philadelphia, and summer and weekend trips. She also records her day-to-day life, which includes...
Dates: 1887-1898

Domestick Education manuscript

 Collection — Box BW 60, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS-16939
Content Description This collection contains a four-page autograph manuscript folio entitled “Domestick Education.” The unsigned, undated manuscript presents a two-chapter, dual-perspective narrative of Kitty, a frustrated domestic servant, and her mistress, Mrs. Makadoo. The focus on female characters and knowledge of domestic work suggests a likely female authorship. The spelling suggests an American author, although the story is vaguely set in the United Kingdom. Mention of Charles Dickens' Dombey, published...
Dates: Majority of material found within undated, c. 1846-1848

"What are you Like?" Victorian parlor game

 Collection — Flat_box 1: [Barcode: X006178784]
Identifier: MSS 16880
Content Description This collection contains a Victorian parlor game titled "What are you Like?" The game, published by D. Sarney of Leamington, United Kingdom, in the 1870s, includes nineteen questionnaire sheets. The sheets are character sketches created by a group of Victorian men and women, presumably as part of a house party. Each sheet has a photograph or sketch of the player. Each sheet poses eight questions to be answered with an illustration: "Proverb or Motto," "Favourite occupation,"...
Dates: c. 1870s