Tag: Women’s History 19th Century U.S.

Cold Water Cure for Bleeding Hearts

Cold Water Cure for Bleeding Hearts

Ho! all ye lovers pale and wan, Who of your bleeding hearts complain For you my trade I carry on And from soiled hearts remove each stain. Come one, come all!– hearts smoothed and pressed And safely folded in the Chest.   Artist/Author unknown Date: 

Book Review: Radical Spirits by Anne Braude

Book Review: Radical Spirits by Anne Braude

Ann Braude. Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989, 2001. Anne Braude’s 1989 Religious Studies classic Radical Spirits was one of the first texts to discuss how religion empowered women politically through the late nineteenth-century phenomenon of Spiritualism, a