ENGL 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Yellow Wallpaper
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Voting rights for women (usa: 1756 lydia chapin is the rst woman to vote, 1850 national women"s right convention, 1896 national woman su rage association and american woman su rage. Association: 1870 women in utah are voting for polygamy so the right to vote was removed, 1890 nwsa and awsa unite. Victorian period (uk: 1839 child custody act. Mother gets the children if they are under 7 years old: 1841 governess benevolence fund. Retirement for governesses: 1844 factory act, 1847 ten-hour act for textile mills, 1848 queen"s college founded. A secondary school: 1855 robert browning"s men and women, 1857 matrimonial causes act. Still not totally fair between men and women: 1869 j. butler and ladies" national association targets the contagious disease. Act: 1870 and 1882 married woman"s property act, 1877 sex ed book published. How is the tone created: meter, rhyme, rhetorical questions. Is it a child"s room or a lunacy room.
