Please Help Me Decide … Do I:
I was so very excited about Cottage Living and the possibilities it presented that I thought, surely this would help keep my attention so that I could play my Ancestral game save, instead of constantl...
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"Sindocat;c-17953011" wrote:
Darnit, I still confuse "Eighteenth Century" and "1800s" in my head, and I do know better.
My Quaker granny is appeased - but still tut-tutting that there should be schools for them. Horace Mann had better hurry up and get born quick! ;)
And now I am off on a tangent, reading up on the history of public education. Those wacky Puritans!
It wasn't just the Puritans. Life in that time frame clearly shows it was a Man's World. Unmarried women had more rights than a married one, believe it or not. A married woman couldn't own land, for instance, or a business. Most often, if a father wanted to leave land to his daughter, it was given to her husband, if he approved of the man, otherwise, he gave it to her heirs. A widow quite often married again, so that she and her children had security. I laugh out loud at the women of today talking about being suppressed. They have no idea, not even a clue. In the 19th century, more and more women refused to wed, preferring the rights as unmarried women they had. Shows you something, doesn't it?
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