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The late Victorian period brought a radical change in cultural attitudes toward middle-class women and work. Anxiety over the growing disproportion between women and men in the population, combined with an awakening desire among young women for personal and financial freedom, led progressive thinkers to advocate for increased employment opportunities. The major stumbling block was the persistent conviction that middle-class women - "ladies" - could not work without relinquishing their social status. Through media reports, public lectures, and fictional portrayals of working women, From Spinster to Career Woman traces advocates' efforts to alter cultural perceptions of women, work, class, and...
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The Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume One, surveys the lives and writings of nearly 400 Midwestern authors and identifies some of the most important criticism of their writings. The Dictionary is based on the belief that the literature of any region simultaneously captures the experience and influences the worldview of its people, reflecting as well as shaping the evolving sense of individual and collective identity, meaning, and values. Volume One presents individual lives and literary orientations and offers a broad survey of the Midwestern experience as expressed by its many diverse peoples over time.Philip A. Greasley's introduction fills in background information and describes...
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Ancestry of the author's only grandchild, Alison Cannady. She was born in 1971 at Salem, Oregon, the daughter of Michael Reid and Catherine Alice Moehring Cannady. Michael Reid Cannady was born in 1942 at Vancouver, Washington, the son of Bruce Barnes Cannady (b. 1912) and Pauline Elizabeth Pinske Cannady (b. 1909). He married Catherine Alice Moehring in 1967 at Braunfels, Texas. She was born in 1943 at Hondo, Texas, the daughter of Wesley Lee Moehring (b. 1921) and Patricia LaNelle Blalack Moehring (b. 1922).