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The Lowell mill girls were young female workers who came to work in textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts during the Industrial Revolution in the United States. The workers initially recruited by the corporations were daughters of New England farmers, typically between the ages of 15 and 35. [ 1 ]
The technology, art, politics, and culture of the 19th century were strongly reflected in the styles and silhouettes of the era's clothing. For women, fashion was an extravagant and extroverted display of the female silhouette with corset pinched waistlines, bustling full-skirts that flowed in and out of trend and decoratively embellished gowns ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:19th-century people. It includes people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Biography portal
In the early nineteenth century the word seminary began to replace the word academy. The new word connoted a certain seriousness. The seminary saw its task primarily as professional preparation. The male seminary prepared men for the ministry; the female seminary took as its earnest job the training of women for teaching and for Republican ...
They were most popular from the 1910s to the 1930s but continued to be worn by older women for several decades thereafter. More recently, the term bloomers has often been used interchangeably with the pantalettes worn by women and girls in the early 19th century and the open-leg knee-length drawers of the mid 19th and early 20th centuries.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:19th-century British people. It includes British people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. See also: Category:19th-century British men
In the mid-19th century, girls had their first periods — which typically come about two years after they begin to show signs of breasts or pubic hair — at age 16.5, on average.
It includes 19th-century African-American people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:19th-century American women .