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Throughout the 18th century the salon served as a matrix for Enlightenment ideals. Women were important in this capacity because they took on the role of salonnieres. Salons of France were assembled by a small number of elite women who were concerned with education and promoting philosophies of the Enlightenment.
Quaker views on women. A female Quaker preaches at a meeting in London in the 18th century. Quaker views on women have always been considered progressive in their own time (beginning in the 17th century), and in the late 19th century this tendency bore fruit in the prominence of Quaker women in the American women's rights movement .
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:18th-century people. It includes people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 18th-century women .
Category:18th-century Finnish women artists Category:18th-century Swedish women artists. Brita von Cöln (died 1707) Anna Maria Ehrenstrahl (1666–1729) – daughter of the painter David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl. Margareta Capsia (1682–1759) – the first professional native female artist in Finland, which during her lifetime was a part of Sweden.
The Grand Tour of Europe became increasingly popular among women in the late 18th century and early 19th century. [1] For British upper-class young women travelling Europe was part of formal education as well as a form of entrance into elite society. [1] When published, women’s letters and travel diaries about their experiences provided ...
Glossary of 18th Century Costume Terminology; An Analysis of An Eighteenth Century Woman's Quilted Waistcoat by Sharon Ann Burnston Archived 2010-05-22 at the Wayback Machine; French Fashions 1700 - 1789 from The Eighteenth Century: Its Institutions, Customs, and Costumes, Paul Lecroix, 1876 "Introduction to 18th Century Men and Women's Fashion".
Category. : 18th-century American women. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 18th-century women of the United States. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:18th-century American people. It includes American people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. 13th.
The first known woman to earn a university chair in a scientific field of studies was eighteenth-century Italian scientist Laura Bassi. Gender roles were largely deterministic in the eighteenth century and women made substantial advances in science. During the nineteenth century, women were excluded from most formal scientific education, but ...