Women's interest articles from the 19th-century

Women's Interest Articles From the 19th-Century 

​A Fortune Found In A Pickle Jar (Fiction—1889)

A Chef's Recipe for a Tender Husband (1888)

A Man in the Kitchen: The Difference Between A "Betty" And the Other Kind (1889)

An Old Maid's Paradise (1889)
An article about single living in 1889.

A Woman Without Cares or Children (1889)
A humorous piece from 1889 about the demands women impose on each other.  (For fans of my Tales of Chetzemoka series —Addie's predicament at the beginning of Love Will Find A Wheel was inspired by this story.)

Come Find My Queen (Poem—1886)

Individuality and Equality (1894)

​Kitchen Love and Loyalty (Fiction—1888)
A very sweet short romance from 1888 about an Irish maid-servant in America.

​Miss Ray Frank (1897)

​The Right Sort of Girl (Poem—1889)

Woman's Cycle (1896)
How women viewed the bicycle, by Mary L. Bisland. (For those of you familiar with the famous 1889 race around the world between reporters Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland, this piece was written by Elizabeth Bisland's sister.)

Woman's Exchanges as Training Schools and Markets for Work (1894)   
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Women Inventors (1897)

Woman's Work for Woman (1889)

​Merchandise

Strong Women Collection
Historic quotes, poetry and images celebrating women.
"Strong women make beautiful women."

Beautiful Victorian Advertisements
Beautiful advertisements from the days when ads were elegant.

​Lady Writer Collection
"If a woman is born with a talent to write she will write —there is no possible doubt about that."

​Victorian Corset Images
"In all times when beauty and comfort are studied, corsets will undoubtedly be worn, and there are many reasons why they should be."—Madame Roxey A. Caplin, 1864.