A Woman's World and The Mind Cure Reflections
A dense reading of period sketches and essays from The Weekly Wisconsin covers women’s roles, manners, and social observation. It critiques mind cure fads, lauds American independence in Bar Harbor, and reflects on Dickens’s enduring influence and the era’s fashion, etiquette, and women’s public life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman’s Womp
Ae WiscoNeIx
Aypatever
Woman's World
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Pleneura
South Kensington
Madame
Doctor En
State Street
Wabash Avenue
Gunther's
Bar Harbor
Robert Grant
Hercules
Bazar
Hawthorne, Fla
Charles Dickens
David Koppefeld
Oliver Twist
Paul Dombey
Tiny Tim
Scrooge
Smike
Red
Mr. Pickwick
Sam Weller
Little Nell
Tom Pinch
Joe Gargery
Mr. Jarndyce
Agnes
Esther
Earth
Dickens
Dolly Varden
Heil-Gate
Newton
Widespread Local Calamities and Tragedies Reported
A roundup of alarming incidents includes hospitals filled with small-pox patients in the region, a deadly family shooting in Greenwich, and a Philadelphia burial where six sons served as pallbearers. Other items note pneumonia in Harrison County cattle, a ranch fight in the Chickasaw nation, poisonings in Philadelphia, and a series of grim deaths and duels across states along with an inquiry into actor John McCullough’s finances.
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East
Saratoga
Victor
England
London
Greenwich
Conn
Jasper W. Amberfield
Jotham Carpenter
Francis Jordan
Philadelphia
Harrison County
Dick Coyard
Dick Jones
Bob Woods
Covart
Jos Carson
Superintendest Bell
Hugh Kinney
Shawnee
Kinney
John McCullough
McCullough
Garnitt
Excery
Napoleon I
Valais
Rhone
France
Emery
Moscow
Leipsic
Thomas Cr
Monticello
Williams
Jack Walters
Jim Boydell
Dog den
DE Soto
Dallas County
Geo. Harrison
Des Moines
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Col. Higginson
Carlyle
Mallock
Gowne
Helen Harkness
Frederike Bremer
Emily Bronte
Hannah More
Harriet Martineau
Eliza Cook
Misa Sedgwick
the Carys
Miss Dickinson
Maria, Edgeworth
Miss Mitford
Augusta Evans
Jane Austen
Mrs. Somerville
Mme. de Sivigne
Misa Bremer
Miss Edgeworth
Mme. Darblay
Bixon
Henry J. Byron
A. T. Stewart
Grand Union
Stewart
Adelina Patti
Paris
Mme. Adelina
Nicolini
Vicrants Cuarniy
The
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John Biddulph Martin
Montreal
United States
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