Working Girls of Boston: Three Women in the Gilded Age

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ClassGraphic A few hosted salons, patronized the arts, or supported worthy causes like the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union. Others struggled to get by. They sent telegraph messages, stitched shoes, bottled patent medicines, gutted fish, and made boxes. Their hands were ruined. They worked in post offices, restaurants, and factories. Comprehensive reports by the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor (1884 and 1901) give context to the early careers of three women: poet and postmistress Louise Imogen Guiney, and librarians Edith Guerrier and Alice M. Jordan. Gale will draw from her research on working women of Gilded Age Boston while writing a biography of librarian Jordan (1870–1960).
 
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Class Details

3 Session(s)
Weekly - Wed

Location
OLLI

Instructor
Gale Eaton 

Tuition: 

$40.00

Registration Closes On
Tuesday, July 22, 2025 @ 12:00 AM

Schedule Information

Date(s) Class Days Times Location Instructor(s) Instructional Method
7/23/2025 - 8/6/2025 Weekly - Wed 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Kingston, OLLI  Map Gale Eaton  ClassRoom

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