Amelia bloomer education

Amelia Bloomer edited the first newspaper for women, The Lily. It was issued from until The newspaper began as a temperance journal.

Bloomers amelia biography images Much to Stanton's annoyance, Amelia Bloomer, who had attended the convention simply in a role of spectator, refused to sign the "Declaration of Sentiments," a statement of intent which included the call for female suffrage. In , she started her own publication called "The Lily," which was published every two weeks. Amelia of Leuchtenburg — One morning in , the citizens of Seneca Falls, New York , were astounded to see two young women walking down the main street in a new, rather strange costume.

Bloomer felt that as women lecturers were considered unseemly, writing was the best way for women to work for reform. Originally, The Lily was to be for “home distribution” among members of the Seneca Falls Ladies Temperance Society, which had formed in Like most local endeavors, the paper encountered several obstacles early on, and the Society’s enthusiasm died out.

Bloomer felt a commitment to publish and assumed full responsibility for editing and publishing the paper. Originally, the title page had the legend “Published by a committee of ladies.” But after – only Bloomer’s name appeared on the masthead.

Although women’s exclusion from membership in temperance societies and other reform activities was the main force that moved the Ladies Temperance Society to publish The Lily, it was not at first a radical paper.

Its editorial stance conformed to the emerging stereotype of women as “defenders of the home.” In the first issue, Bloomer wrote:

It is woman that speaks through The Lily…Intemperance is the great foe to her peace and happiness. It is that above all that has made her Home desolate and beggared her offspring….

Surely, she has the right to wield her pen for its Suppression. Surely, she may without throwing aside the modest refinements which so much become her sex, use her influence to lead her fellow mortals from the destroyer’s path.

The Lily always maintained its focus on temperance.

Bloomers amelia biography wikipedia This did not, however, mark the end of Bloomer's reforming activities. She remained a contributing editor for the two years The Lily survived after she sold it. Although Bloomer continued to write and produce The Lily , she also served as assistant editor of her husband's publication and contributed many articles on the topics of temperance and women's rights. Updated Aug 13 About encyclopedia.

Fillers often told horror stories about the effects of alcohol. For example, the May issue noted, “A man when drunk fell into a kettle of boiling brine at Liverpool, Onondaga Co. and was scaled to death.” But gradually, the newspaper began to include articles about other subjects of interest to women. Many were from the pen of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, writing under the pseudonym “sunflower.” The earliest Stanton’s articles dealt with the temperance, child-bearing, and education, but she soon turned to the issue of women’s rights.

She wrote about laws unfair to women and demanded change.

Bloomer was greatly influenced by Stanton and gradually became a convert to the cause of women’s rights. Recalling the case of an elderly friend who was turned out of her home when her husband died without a will she wrote:

Later, other similar cases coming to my knowledge made me familiar with cruelty of the laws towards women; and when the women rights convention put forth its Declaration of Sentiments.

Bloomers amelia biography However, the reform of women's clothing was slow and difficult, and eventually, even the most dedicated feminists returned to more traditional attire. Her early writings were devoted to temperance, imploring women to unite in that cause. Bloomfield, John Amelia Mary Earhart.

I was ready to join with that party in demanding for women such change in laws as would give her a right to her earnings, and her children a right to wider fields of employment and a better education, and also a right to protect her interest at the ballot box.

Bloomer became interested in dress reform, advocating that women wear the outfit that came to be known as the “Bloomer costume.” Stanton and others copied a knee-length dress with pants worn by Elizabeth Smith Miller of Geneva, New York.

Although Bloomer refused to take credit for inventing the pants-and-tunic outfit, her name became associated with it because she wrote articles about the unusual dress, printed illustrations in The Lily, and wore the costume herself. In reference to her advocacy of the costume, she once wrote, “I stood amazed at the furor I had unwittingly caused.” But people certainly were interested in the new fashion.

She remembered: “As soon as it became known that I was wearing the new dress, letters came pouring in upon me by the hundreds from women all over the country making inquiries about the dress and asking for patterns – showing how ready and anxious women were to throw off the burden of long, heavy skirts.”

In May of Amelia Bloomer introduced Susan B.

Anthony to Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Stanton said, "I liked her immediately and why I did not invite her home to dinner with me I do not know."

The circulation of The Lily rose from per month to per month because of the dress reform controversy.

Bloomers amelia biography youtube Shortly after, she began contributing a series of short articles, under the pseudonym Gloriana, for the national temperance journal, The Water Bucket. Always a woman of strong opinions on almost every subject, she introduced herself to the readers of the Western Home Visitor by saying: "What I have been in the past, I expect to be in the future,—an uncompromising opponent of wrong and oppression in every form, and a sustainer of the right and the true, with whatever it may be connected. Related Topics Bloomers. She died at Council Bluffs on the last day of

At the end of , the Bloomers moved to Mount Vernon, Ohio, where Amelia Bloomer continued to edit The Lily, which by then had a national circulation of over Bloomer sold The Lily in to Mary Birdsall, because she and her husband Dexter were moving again this time to Council Bluffs, Iowa, where no facilities for publishing the paper were available.

She remained a contributing editor for the two years The Lily survived after she sold it.