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Name: Amelia Jenks Bloomer
Birth Date: May 27, 1818
Death Date: December 31, 1894
Place of Birth: Homer, New York, United States
Place of Death: Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: women's rights activist, reformer

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Biography of Amelia Jenks Bloomer
566 words, approx. 2 pages
An American advocate of woman's rights in the early days of the feminist movement, Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1818-1894) spent most of her life working for the cause. She was also a reformer of women's clothing and helped promote "bloomers." Amelia Jenks...
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Even in her own lifetime Amelia Bloomer was best known for wearing, as well as editorially defending and popularizing, "bifurcated trowsers"; although the costume was not her own invention, she was deluged with requests for patterns for and information...


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Amelia Jenks Bloomer (May 27, 1818—December 30, 1894) was an American women's rights and temperance advocate. She created the "Loose Bloomer" for womens comfort. Bloomer came from a family of modest means and received only a few years of formal...


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You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer!(Review) (book review)
03/01/2000: 282 words, approx. 1 pages
COREY, Shana. You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer! illus. by Chesley McLaren. unpaged. notes. Scholastic Press. Mar. 2000. RTE $16.95. ISBN 0-439-07819-9. LC 99-27181. Gr 1-3--A funny, disdainful look at the early 19th-century proprieties that set the scene for the women's rights...
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YOU FORGOT YOUR SKIRT, AMELIA BLOOMER!(Review) (book reviews)
01/31/2000: 235 words, approx. 1 pages
SHANA COREY, ILLUS. BY CHESLEY MCLAREN. Scholastic, $16.95 (40p) ISBN 0-439-07819-9 * Modern rebels meet a kindred spirit in Corey and McLaren's exuberant debut that introduces feminist pioneer Amelia Bloomer. "Amelia Bloomer was NOT a proper lady," trumpets the text, which tells...
 


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