Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Wild Women Crusaders Curmudgeons and Completely Corsetless Ladies in the Otherwise Virtuous Victoria Wild Women. Badass Victorian Women "Wild Women is a delightful collection of riveting stories about our independent, iconoclastic, and utterly outrageous foremothers." - Vicki Leon, author of Uppity Women of Ancient Times. #1 New Release in Politics & Social Sciences, Reference - Badass Victorian Women Enjoy a fascinating and sometimes humorous glimpse into the lives of over one hundred, 19th-century Victorian era American women who refused to whittle themselves down to the Victorian model of proper womanhood. Included in Wild Women are 50-black-and-white photos from the era. During the Victorian era a …mehr. Wild Women: Crusaders Curmudgeons and Completely Corsetless Ladies in the Otherwise Virtuous Victorian Era by Autumn Stephens. LoDo Mural Project Resources. SUSAN ANDERSON Cornell, Virginia. 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Wild Women. “Wild Women is a delightful collection of riveting stories about our independent, iconoclastic, and utterly outrageous foremothers.” – Vicki Leon, author of Uppity Women of Ancient Times. #1 New Release in Politics & Social Sciences, Reference ─ Badass Victorian Women. Enjoy a fascinating and sometimes humorous glimpse into the lives of over one hundred, 19th-century Victorian era American women who refused to whittle themselves down to the Victorian model of proper womanhood. Included in Wild Women are 50-black-and-white photos from the era. During the Victorian era a woman’s pedestal was her prison. “Women should not be expected to write, or fight, or build, or compose scores. She does all by inspiring man to do all.” ─ Ralph Waldo Emerson. “There is nothing more dangerous for a young woman than to rely chiefly upon her intellectual powers, her wit, her imagination, her fancy.” ─ Godey’s Lady’s Book magazine. But, scores of nineteenth-century American women chose to live life on their terms. In this book you will meet women who refused to remain on a Victorian pedestal. In San Francisco a courtesan appeared as a plaintiff in court, suing her clients for fraud. In Montana a laundress in her seventies decked a gentleman who refused to pay his bill. A forty-three-year-old schoolteacher plunged down Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel. A frail lighthouse keeper pulled twenty-two sinking sailors out of the ocean off Rhode Island. A pair of Colorado madams fought a public pistol duel over their mutual beau. Two lady lovebirds were legally wed in Michigan. An ad hoc abolitionist spirited away scores of slaves on the Underground Railroad. A Secessionist spy swallowed a secret message as she was arrested, claiming that no one could capture her soul. Readers of books for women such as Women Who Run with the Wolves or Badass Affirmations will love this book about Victorian women who refused to accept the gender roles of their day. Autumn Stephens was born in a New Mexico mining community whose population began to dwindle shortly after her arrival (though she swears this was mere coincidence) and finally faded from the map altogether. She spent the rest of her childhood in Eugene, Oregon. Initially, she intended to become a psychologist, but when she noticed that her introductory psych classes at Stanford University tended to focus on the behavior of rats rather than that of human beings, she signed up as a Creative Writing major instead. During several subsequent years as an afterhours creative writer; daytime wage slave, Stephens worked as a medical coder, a phone sex script writer, a composer of fraudulent Tarot prognostications, and something called a "special investigator" for the State Bar of California. More than any other experience, however, her stint as an old fashioned legal secretary (among other absurdities, the job involved the daily composition of a heart-healthy salad for a high maintenance male boss) honed the deliciously snide feminist sensibility which informs Stephens' writing today. (Well, okay, growing up more or less concurrently with the women's movement of the 1960s and 1970s helped too.) Stephens is the author of the popular "Wild Women" books published by Conari Press, including Wild Women, Wild Women in the White House, Wild Words from Wild Women, Loose Cannons, Drama Queens, and Out of the Mouths of Babes. Stephens also freelances for magazines, reviews women's writing for the San Francisco Chronicle, and enjoys an entirely attorney free lifestyle. Currently, she lives in Berkeley, California, a city that she would like better were it not for an uncharacteristically restrictive ordinance against raising miniature pigs in one's backyard. Her hobbies are sleeping and reading trashy celebrity magazines. Emma Donoghue's 'Frog Music' delves into S.F. murder mystery. In 1876 San Francisco, there were brothels, burlesque dancers, cross-dressers and a dominant male population. The cross-dressers weren't quite embraced - women were arrested if they wore pants - but that didn't stop Jenny Bonnet. She was shot dead in that summer, and her murder was covered in the local newspaper, The Chronicle. Emma Donoghue's latest novel, "Frog Music," explores the historical figures surrounding the death of Bonnet to create a murder mystery. Bonnet "struck me as the most interesting murder victim because she lived as if she knew she was going to die at 27," says the Irish-born novelist, who discovered Bonnet after reading "Wild Women: Crusaders, Curmudgeons, and Completely Corsetless Ladies in the Otherwise Virtuous Victorian Era" by Autumn Stephens. "She seems to have picked the maximum number of fights. She struck me as an enormous, irreverent, very modern figure. Even though she was cross-dressing and wasn't disguising herself as a man or anything. She was a known woman in pants, and she managed to do that with a wild performativity." The main character, Blanche Beunon, a burlesque dancer, was near the shooting that killed Bonnet and believed she was probably the intended target. Her journey to find justice is the narrative thread of the novel. "The big surprise for me was that it turned out to be so much Blanche's novel," Donoghue says. Almost everyone in the book is a real person, down to the police, the local prostitutes and even bit players like the pawnbroker. "The book is about real people, and I had such fun weaving them together," Donoghue says. "One interesting challenge I had for the book was to figure out how exactly did you do erotic dancing in the 1870s, because what they didn't do was strip. There's no evidence of taking off your clothes slowly to a piece of music in those days. They seemed to have worn sexy outfits to dance, but didn't take them off piece by piece." Donoghue's book captures the details of San Francisco through meticulous research. The city is a character itself. "One thing that really did strike me was the sheer number of homeless in San Francisco," Donoghue says. "That made sense to me that for centuries it has been a magnet, it's where you go when you have no where else to go, the climate is relatively mild, it's always been a city of freedom and eccentricity, the way San Francisco has always been proud of its eccentrics. And it had crazy people like Emperor Norton, going around declaring himself to be emperor. You can't get away with that in every city."