She wrote mainly about some marginalized groups of the time, like women, Native Americans, uh, immigrants. Now, her best-known book is a novella called Life in the Iron Mills. It's really a key text because it's one of the original realist works. Her works overall have been pretty...
When Women Were “Ladies” As late as 1800, women’s only place was in the home. The idea of women in the business world was unthinkable. No “nice” woman would d1.of entering what was strictly a “man’s world”. Even if she could, what would she do? Men were positive that no...
As late as 1800, women’s only place was in the home. The idea of women in the business world was unthinkable. No “nice” woman would d 1. of entering what was strictly a “man’s world”. Even if she could, what would she do? Men were positive that no women could deal with ...
What did the Homestead Act of 1862 offer Western settlers? In what years were English settlements established in what is present day Maine and Georgia? Why were most of the early settlements in Colonial America north of North Carolina? What was the first permanent settlement in North ...
What role did women play in the civil rights movement? What is the Women's Liberation Movement? What is the Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights? Which amendment gave women the right to vote? What year were women granted political rights in the U.K.?
阅读理解 How Women Were Freed From Their Homes As late as 1800 a woman's only place was in her home.Women in business were unheard of.No respectable woman would dream of entering what was stri
As American settlers spread west in the 1800s, how were American Indians affected? What effect did the Reconquista have? How did the Panic of 1837 affect immigration? How did the Immigration Act of 1924 affect Jewish people? How did the Great Migration affect African Ameri...
s objectivity.Characters and events are described without the narrator's passing much judgment on them or anything, or being too dramatic.Basically, you're reading a story without too much extra comment from the narrator.OK. Now, we have an idea of what realism was.So, who were the ...
John Lubbock, a British member of the Parliament, led to the first law to safeguard Britain' s heritage—the Ancient Monuments Bill. How did it happen? By the late 1800s more and more people were visiting Stonehenge for a day out. Now a World Heritage Site owned by the Crown, it was...
Women were in the midst of a long arduous battle of the women suffrage movement and as they gained ground in this fight the gender roles started to change along with the country: “Westward expansion also demanded that many women step outside prescribed gender roles and perform “men’s” ...