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2010 Posting Schedule

Jan 4 - The Martial Art of Sherlock Holmes
Jan 11 - The Paris Flood of 1910
Jan 18 - Dining and Dinners
Jan 25 - Everyday Life in a Boys' Public School: Winchester
Feb 1 - The Women's Club Movement
Feb 8 - The Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition
Feb 15 - The Souls of Black Folk: Art & Literature
Feb 22 - W.E.B. DuBois & Booker T. Washington: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Mar 1 - Uncommon Women: Lady Explorers
Mar 8 - Fly Girls, Daredevils, and Fiends for Speed: Women at the Wheel
Mar 15 - Together We Stand: Women's Suffrage in the U.S.
Mar 22 - The Fight for Women's Education
Mar 29 - The Business of Being a Woman

Posts Tagged ‘America’

A Day at the Links

June 28th, 2009 | No Comments

The Edwardian era saw the growth of golf into a worldwide sport. Despite a brief entry into English consciousness in the 15th and 16th centuries, the game became wildly popular outside of Scotland when Englishmen founded the Royal North Devon Club at Westward Ho! in 1864. There were golf clubs in Britain before this–and indeed [...]

Tags: America, country clubs, golf, great britain, politicians
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La Jeune fille à marier

March 7th, 2009 | 1 Comment

He had drawn out his cigarettes as he spoke, and she reached her hand toward the case.
“Oh, do give me one–I haven’t smoked for days!”
“Why such unnatural abstinence? Everybody smokes at Bellomont.”
“Yes–but it is not considered becoming in a jeune fille à marier; and at the present moment I am a jeune fille à marier.
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Tags: America, edwardian teen, england, france, young women
Posted in Etiquette, Marriage, Washington D.C., Women | 1 Comment »