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Though she was queen, Victoria as an unmarried young woman, was required by social convention to live with her mother, despite their differences over the Kensington System and her mother's continued reliance on Sir John Conroy. [1] Her mother was consigned to a remote apartment in Buckingham Palace, and Victoria often refused to meet her. [2]
Charlotte Brontë's novel Shirley (published as by Currer Bell).; Thomas De Quincey's essay The English Mail-Coach (in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, October–December). ...
Most women probably came by way of Panama as this was one of the fastest trips (40–90 days) and one of the most reliable—although expensive in 1850--$400–$600/person one-way. Passage via Panama became much more predictable after the paddle wheel steam ship lines were up and running by late 1849.
January 23 – Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York, thus becoming the United States' first woman doctor. January 27 The Fayetteville and Western Plank Road Company is incorporated, to build a plank road from Fayetteville to Bethania, North Carolina. [1]
New Zealand: Married women allowed to own property (extended in 1870). [9] United States, New York: New York's Married Women's Property Act of 1860 passed. [58] Married women granted the right to control their own earnings. [28] United States, Maryland: Married women granted separate economy. [13]
Margaret Mackall Taylor (née Smith; September 21, 1788 – August 14, 1852) was the first lady of the United States from 1849 to 1850 as the wife of President Zachary Taylor. She married Zachary in 1810 and lived as an army wife, accompanying her husband to his postings in the American frontier. She had six children, two of whom died in ...
Catherine Murat, Princess Murat (née Catherine Daingerfield Willis). This is a non-exhaustive list of some American socialites, so called American dollar princesses, from before the Gilded Age to the end of the 20th century, who married into the European titled nobility, peerage, or royalty.
Married women wore their caps under their bonnets. The crown and brim of the bonnet created a horizontal line and when tied under the chin, the brim created a nice frame around the face. [ 1 ] This style was also often called the "coal-scuttle" bonnet because of its resemblance to the metals scoops used to shovel coal into furnaces.