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Amelia Jenks Bloomer (May 27, 1818 – December 30, 1894) was an American newspaper editor, women's rights and temperance advocate. Even though she did not create the women's clothing reform style known as bloomers , her name became associated with it because of her early and strong advocacy.
By 1853, the paper had a national circulation of 6000, and Bloomer continued producing it from Mount Vernon, Ohio, after Bloomer moved with her husband, Dexter Bloomer. In 1854 or 1855, Amelia Bloomer sold the paper to Mary Birdsall because she was moving to a new house in Council Bluffs, Iowa, which lacked facilities for newspaper publication.
“Every choice gives you a chance to pave your own road. Keep moving. Full speed ahead.” — Oprah Winfrey “Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a ...
In a reversal of gender roles, a "bloomer" asks her fiancé's shocked father for consent to marry his son: satirical cartoon from 1852. In February 1851, Elizabeth Smith Miller of Peterboro, New York, wore the "Turkish dress" [6] to the Seneca Falls, New York, home of Amelia Bloomer and her temperance journal, The Lily. The next month, Bloomer ...
Jack Welch, who started out as an engineer at General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), and rose to be one of the most influential CEOs in modern business, has died.Welch was appointed GE chairman and ...
Rise: A Feminist Book Project, formerly known as the Amelia Bloomer Project and compiled by the American Library Association, is an annual list of books with significant feminist content that are intended for readers from birth to age 18. [1] [2] The Amelia Bloomer Project was started in 2002 and continued annually until the name change in 2020 ...
Bloomer ran the board of Morgan Stanley International (MSI), a London-based subsidiary of Morgan Stanley, regulated in the United Kingdom, and doing business in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
In September 2022, Jubilee announced they had raised over $1 million, and had launched a new channel called Nectar, centered around romantic relationships. [2] Jubilee's YouTube content shifted towards politics after the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. Lee, "disappointed" by the division in the U.S., sought to create content encouraging ...