{"product_id":"wild-women-9781642503647","title":"Wild Women","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cb\u003eBadass Victorian Women\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Wild Women is a delightful collection of riveting stories about our independent, iconoclastic, and utterly outrageous foremothers.” – Vicki Leon, author of Uppity Women of Ancient Times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e#1 New Release in Politics \u0026amp; Social Sciences, Reference\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEnjoy a fascinating and sometimes humorous glimpse into the lives of over one hundred, 19th-century Victorian era American women who refused to whittle themselves down to the Victorian model of proper womanhood. Included in \u003cem\u003eWild Women\u003c\/em\u003e are 50-black-and-white photos from the era.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDuring the Victorian era a woman’s pedestal was her prison.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Women should not be expected to write, or fight, or build, or compose scores. She does all by inspiring man to do all.” ─ Ralph Waldo Emerson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There is nothing more dangerous for a young woman than to rely chiefly upon her intellectual powers, her wit, her imagination, her fancy.” ─ Godey’s Lady’s Book magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBut, scores of nineteenth-century American women chose to live life on their terms. In this book you will meet women who refused to remain on a Victorian pedestal.\u003c\/b\u003e In San Francisco a courtesan appeared as a plaintiff in court, suing her clients for fraud. In Montana a laundress in her seventies decked a gentleman who refused to pay his bill. A forty-three-year-old schoolteacher plunged down Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel. A frail lighthouse keeper pulled twenty-two sinking sailors out of the ocean off Rhode Island. A pair of Colorado madams fought a public pistol duel over their mutual beau. Two lady lovebirds were legally wed in Michigan. An ad hoc abolitionist spirited away scores of slaves on the Underground Railroad. A Secessionist spy swallowed a secret message as she was arrested, claiming that no one could capture her soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReaders of books for women such as \u003cem\u003eWomen Who Run with the Wolves\u003c\/em\u003e or \u003cem\u003eBadass Affirmations\u003c\/em\u003e will love this book about Victorian women who refused to accept the gender roles of their day.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Autumn Stephens","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48305015750907,"sku":"9781642503647","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781642503647_2b8fb67f-fdb7-4a75-bee4-45867a3d4379.jpg?v=1772485831","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/wild-women-9781642503647","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}