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In 1813, businessman Francis Cabot Lowell formed a company, the Boston Manufacturing Company, and built a textile mill next to the Charles River in Waltham, Massachusetts.. Unlike the earlier Rhode Island System, where only carding and spinning were done in a factory while the weaving was often put out to neighboring farms to be done by hand, the Waltham mill was the first integrated mill in ...
Mary Johnston (November 21, 1870 – May 9, 1936) [1] was an American novelist and women's rights advocate from Virginia. She was one of America's best selling authors during her writing career and had three silent films adapted from her novels.
Judicial corporal punishment is the infliction of corporal punishment as a result of a sentence imposed on an offender by a court of law, including flagellation (also called flogging or whipping), forced amputations, caning, bastinado, birching, or strapping.
The 1920s saw the emergence of the co-ed, as women began attending large state colleges and universities. Women entered into the mainstream middle-class experience, but took on a gendered role within society. Women typically took classes such as home economics, "Husband and Wife", "Motherhood" and "The Family as an Economic Unit".
One exception is Journey Among Women (1977), a feminist imagining of what life was like for convict women. [35] Alexander Pearce, the infamous Tasmanian convict and cannibal, is the inspiration for The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce (2008), Dying Breed (2008) and Van Diemen's Land (2009).
The Berkley Horse. Theresa Berkley ran a high-class flagellation brothel at 28 Charlotte Street [1] (which is today's 84–94 Hallam Street). [2] She was a "governess", meaning she specialised in chastisement, whipping, flagellation, and the like. [3]
Duren v. Missouri is a Supreme Court case in which it ruled that the exemption on request of women from jury service under Missouri law, resulting in an average of less than 15% women on jury venires in the forum county, violated the "fair-cross-section" requirement of the Sixth Amendment as made applicable to the States by the Fourteenth ...
Hughes is best known for a series of four memoirs, A London Child of the 1870s (1934), A London Girl of the 1880s (1936), A London Home in the 1890s (1937), and A London Family Between the Wars (1940). Hughes's stated purpose in these books is "to show that Victorian children did not have such a dull time as is usually supposed".