- Meet The Angel Makers Of Nagyrév Who Terrorized A Hungarian Village
Between 1914 and 1929, a band of women now known as the Angel Makers of Nagyrév, Hungary, poisoned an estimated 40 men and children in their small village — though some estimate they killed closer to 300
- What Family Life Was Like in the 1920s How It Differs From Today
In honor of the decade's 100-year anniversary, we're unpacking what family life was like in the 1920s, from the regional differences in urban and rural spaces to how people spent their downtime
- The ‘Black Angels’ Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
By 1920, the hospital had helped lower New York’s annual death rate from 10,000 to a little more than 5,000 But there it stalled, turning Sea View’s triumph into the city’s nightmare Tuberculosis was the third leading killer in New York and the fourth globally
- Angel in the House, Angel in the Scientific Empire: Women and Colonial . . .
‘Angel in the house’ is an idealized icon of Victorian women, who unconditionally loved, supported and submitted to their husbands Borrowing this metaphor, I discuss three kinds of angels in colonial botany, which was intrinsically patriarchal
- Sunnyslope’s Angels of the Desert - Sunnyslope Historical Society
In the 1920s and 1930s two ladies were known as the Angels of the Desert because of their deliveries of medicine and food to those living on the desert of Sunnyslope who were ill from TB or asthma
- The Changing Nature of American Family Life in the 1920s
The 1920s marked a transformative decade for American family life, characterized by significant social, economic, and cultural shifts that profoundly altered the dynamics of family structures and relationships
- A Brief History of Domestic Goddesses | by The Hairpin - Medium
The ideal 19th-century Domestic Goddess was “The Angel in the House,” a position much moralized about by the leading writers, preachers, and politicians of the day The Angel in the House
- Revisiting the Angel in the House: Revisions of Victorian Womanhood
Feminists have long been fascinated by the image of the proper Victorian woman, the "Angel in the House "1 Some have found her to be a bloodless and famished creature, a patriarchal construction born of men's needs, not women's
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