The Virginian-Pilot

No wilting flowers: Colonial Williamsburg highlights the diverse roles of 18th-century women

In the heart of Colonial Williamsburg, the different roles women played in 18th-century society are evident. There are costumed interpreters like Deirdre Jones Cardwell and Katharine Pittman, who tell ...
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These 18th Century lesbians were a throuple before throuples were a thing

Back in the 18th century, women didn’t have a lot of options outside of the marriage market. While in America there were plenty of “Boston marriages” between women of means, it wasn’t always a likely ...
insider.si.edu

Ladies of the Grand Tour : British women in pursuit of enlightenment and adventure in eighteenth-century Europe / Brian Dolan

Machine generated contents note: ILLUSTRATIONS iX -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Xi -- I Belles Lettres and Black Swans -- The Enlightenment & Travel -- 2 'If anything could inspire an unpoetic imagination' 15 - ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Russian Noblewoman, Beloved by Catherine the Great and Benjamin Franklin, Embodied the Age of Enlightenment

Princess Dashkova led research institutes, wrote plays and music, and embarked on a Grand Tour of 18th-century Europe E.R. Zarevich Princess Dashkova (center) exchanged letters with Benjamin Franklin ...