Chopin, Kate: 1851 - 1904
The Awakening, 1899 - Background
- The 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote.
- Timeline of the Women's Rights Movement 1848 - 1998
- Daily Life of Victorian Middle-Class Women: "As people moved to the towns where the factories were located, urban areas grew, and a new classification of people—the middle class—began to flourish. Women still tended to the everyday chores of the home: the cooking, cleaning, sewing, and raising of the children."
- Separate Spheres for Men and Women: "Men and women naturally belonged in what they called separate “spheres.” Women inhabited a sphere comprising the home, church, and social visits they exchanged with each other. Men's sphere was outside the home in the world of industry, commerce, and politics."
- How Victorian Women Were Oppressed Through the Use of Psychiatry: "At the time, after all, psychiatrists were often hired by husbands and fathers to probe their wives’ and daughters’ “abnormal” behaviors"
- New Woman and feminist literature: "Replacing the submissive, apathetic female of sentimental novels was the decisive, career-minded, unchaperoned go-getter, whom the French dubbed a nouvelle femme."
- Esplanade Street; picture taken around 1900.
