By Madeleine B. Stern
Victoria Woodhull is remembered because the first lady to run for the presidency of the United States—in 1872—and as an suggest of a unmarried usual of morality for either sexes. We the ladies describes an aspect of Woodhull much less popular: the 1st lady stockbroker in the USA, she was once winning on Wall highway whereas lambasting in her magazine the railroads, insurance firms, and different special-interest teams. Stern bargains biographical sketches of Belva Ann Lockwood, who fought for the best to perform legislations ahead of the ultimate courtroom; Isabel C. Barrows, the 1st lady stenographer within the nation division; Rebecca Pennell Dean, criticized for no longer "knowing her position" while she joined a school college; Ellen H. Richards, the 1st university-trained chemist and a continuing employee for public healthiness; Lucy Hobbs Taylor, who led ladies into the sphere of dentistry; Sarah G. Bagley, the 1st lady telegrapher; Rebecca Lukens, a optimal captain of whose imaginative and prescient contributed to shaping America's iron age; Mary Ann Lee, the ballerina who brought americans to innovative dances from out of the country; Ann S. Stephen, the writer of the 1st Beadle Dime Novel; Candace Wheeler, who introduced girls into the career of domestic inside ornament; and Harriet Irwin, Louise Bethune, and Sophia G. Hayden, who prepared the ground for ladies to turn into expert architects.These nineteenth-century American girls have been the 1st to achieve professions formerly open merely to males. Madeleine B. Stern has restored them richly to existence in We the ladies. The decision and intelligence of those ladies gained for ladies a spot within the arts, technology and know-how, schooling and the legislations, and company and undefined. between Stern's different books are Louisa may well Alcott and The lifetime of Margaret Fuller.
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Against the background of a parish workhouse, she led a chorus of broom girls who had brushed up their wardrobe for the occasion, and in ludi- Page 16 crous jumps in place of graceful bounds, "Our Mary Ann" gave evidence that she had learned to laugh at herself. In the burlesque operatic ballet extravaganza, the small, blue-eyed young ballerina who had worked so indefatigably over the years relaxed and poked fun at herself. Her growing maturity was evinced as her roles increased in variety. In New York she had supported Madame Lecomte in the first American performance of Robert-Le-Diable which introduced the cult of the supernatural against a Sicilian setting.
Barrows 178 9 The First Woman Admitted to Practice Before the United States Supreme Court: Belva Ann Lockwood 205 Page x Business & Industry 10 The First American Woman in the Iron Plate Rolling Industry: Rebecca W. Lukens 237 11 America's First Woman Stockbroker: Victoria C. Woodhull 251 12 An American Woman First in Textiles & Interior Decoration: Candace Wheeler 273 Notes on Sources 305 Index 387 Page xi ILLUSTRATIONS facing page El Bolerio, As Danced By Mss. M. A. Lee, And Mr. Hubbard 52 Title-Page Of Malaeska By Ann S.
Although he never appeared to understand English, he spoke, when he was obliged to speak, with a brogue. But whatever his ancestry or his tongue, he proved a useful teacher for Miss Lee, who under his guidance quickly learned Fanny Elssler's dances, from her sparkling version of the cachucha, provocative, abandoned, to the Spanish five-part bolero, noble and restrained, from the Russian smolenska to el jaleo de Jerez. She studied Elssler's handling of the castanets, her Crac- Page 14 ovienne costume of blue skirt, red boots and white jacket; above all she studied the techniques of dances as varied as the nations that had produced them.