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Podcast: The Exploress
Episode: A Lady's Life in 19th Century America
Description: Season 1, Episode 1. Mid-19th century America was a pretty buttoned-up place. Or was it? For women, marriage and family was their destiny, their lives confined to a small and private sphere. They could toil, but they couldn't vote; they could work their land, but often couldn't own it. They were laced into corsets, surrounded by a piece of clothing called a cage. The whole thing sounds pretty...constricting. But women in this era did plenty of fascinating things, both within the boundaries of polite society and well outside of them. That was especially true when...