Photo Credit: The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth, 1914, Jennie A. Brownscombe, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, The Netherlands. Note the painting depicts a Thanksgiving that is not family-oriented, held outdoors rather than inside the home, including a large and diverse group of people beyond the immediate family. Hohum/Wikimedia Commons/PD Art (PD Old) “‘The original Thanksgiving dinners […]
Tag: 19th Century
Not Worth a Cent: The Coming of The Gilded Age
The idea behind the cartoon is, as I mention below, the fact that big business was “in bed” with government. In this cartoon, big business is represented by “the robber barons”, the name given to the tycoons of the railroad companies (and the businesses that made them possible, such as the steel business), depicted as […]
A Dissatisfying Ideology: 19th Century Separate Spheres
Photo Credit: Victorian gentleman and lady with flowers, silhouette, OpenClipartVectors/Pixabay/CC0 1.0 Since much of my writing (historical and otherwise) explores the relationship between the sexes and how women and men interact in the world, one of the basics to understanding Gilded Age and Progressive Era fiction is the concept of the separate spheres. I briefly […]
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