Biography, Source, Women's History

Elizabeth Heyrick (1869-1831)

Elizabeth Heyrick (1769-1831), social reformer and abolitionist, is little known today.  She receives only the briefest mention in Charlotte Sussman’s Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender, and British Slavery, 1713-1833, Stanford University Press, 2000. She was hardly mentioned in the media…

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Source, Women's History

Nineteenth century humour

Like the modern tabloid, nineteenth century newspapers liked to carry jokes for their readers. And, like the modern tabloid, they often carried misogynist undertones. This selection is from the Anglo-Celt in 1871: A ferocious bachelor defines marriage as a crime…

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