Posts tagged temperance

Although she never wrote down to her readers, Fort Wayne's classicist wrote for what would today be called a “popular” audience.

Gougar was converted to the cause of women's suffrage by the issue of domestic violence, which she hoped to be able to "vote away".

The crowd petitioning the legislature for women’s rights was ridiculed in the press as a “field of crinoline” and a “surging mass of pantaloons.”

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