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Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

June 6, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

We’ve all seen a t-shirt, bumper sticker, mug or mouse pad with seem variation of the motto “Well-behaved women seldom make history”. I actually own a t-shirt, my mother had a bumper sticker on her Jeep Cherokee, and I think somewhere in a box shoved in one of my closets I might have a tote bag. What I didn’t know was that “well-behaved women seldom make history” was originally from a paper about Puritan women’s funeral sermons, or that it was coined by a Mormon […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: feminism through the ages, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:69 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: feminism through the ages, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ·
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The League of Extraordinary Women Strikes Again

A Rogue of One's Own by Evie Dunmore

January 25, 2021 by wicherwill 2 Comments

Hmm I feel bad giving this the same rating as the prior entry in the series, Bringing Down the Duke, because while similar this book is so very much better. It is, like the first book, at its heart a romance novel but like Serious and Literary, which you can tell because it gets a proper book release and the cover has the cartoon characters as opposed to a realistic drawing. No one is denying that part of it, there are tropes galore (the dowdy one […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: a league of extraordinary women, evie dunmore, feminism through the ages, Victorian era

wicherwill's CBR13 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: a league of extraordinary women, evie dunmore, feminism through the ages, Victorian era ·
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