{"product_id":"amelia-bloomer-journalist-suffragist-anti-fashion-icon-paperback","title":"Amelia Bloomer: Journalist, Suffragist, Anti-Fashion Icon - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSara Catterall\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA fascinating look at an underappreciated woman in American history whose newspaper fostered a national conversation on women's issues.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose who recognize the name Amelia Bloomer usually do so because of bloomers, the clothing item named after her. While she was a rational dress advocate for a time--calling on women to abandon rigid corsets and heavy petticoats and opt for long trousers, shorter skirts, and sensible boots--it was \"but an incident\" in the larger story of her life and impact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBloomer edited and published \u003cem\u003eThe Lily\u003c\/em\u003e, the first newspaper for and by women. Founded to promote temperance, it soon broadened to include some of the most important issues to women in that day, including the right to vote, and included contributions from thinkers like Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The groundbreaking paper brought the conversation from Seneca Falls right to the doorsteps of women across the expanding nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuided by a rigid sense of morality and a Puritan work ethic, Bloomer remained open-minded to new ideas. She refused to be swayed by social norms and wrote cutting responses to those who tried to intimidate or shame her and her friends, a group that included Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. This deeply researched biography by Sara Catterall follows the many chapters of her life: her humble upbringing in upstate New York, her role in the temperance movement (and its true legacy as a wellspring of the women's rights movement), her years at The Lily, her groundbreaking position as deputy postmaster in Seneca falls, her troubled health, and her eventual move to Council Bluffs, Iowa, where she continued to move the needle on women's suffrage in the more flexible new governments of the West. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSara Catterall\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer with a Drama degree from NYU, and an MLIS from Syracuse University. She was born in Ankara and grew up in South Minneapolis. She has worked as a librarian at Cornell University, as a reviewer and interviewer for Shelf Awareness, and as a professional book indexer. Her work has been published in the \u003cem\u003eNEH's Humanities\u003c\/em\u003e magazine and \u003cem\u003eThe Sun\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, and she co-authored \u003cem\u003eOttoman Dress\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e Design in the West: A Visual History of Cultural Exchange\u003c\/em\u003e. She lives with her family near Ithaca, NY.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 9.02 x 6.11 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 04, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53173580890419,"sku":"9781953368898","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/z1STjn8f9j9781953368898.webp?v=1774514953","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/amelia-bloomer-journalist-suffragist-anti-fashion-icon-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}