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Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Gazette
March 2, 2007Volume 5, Issue 7
Primary Source of the Month

“The Sewing Room at A.T. Stewart’s,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, April 24, 1875

“The Sewing Room at A.T. Stewart’s,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, April 24, 1875.


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"With All the Grace of the [Gender]"
Primary Source of the Month

Teaching Strategy

Colonial Williamsburg Teaching Resources

Teaching News

Quotation of the Month


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"With All the Grace of the [Gender]"
by Donna Dene Woodward

Traveling through the English countryside in 1741, William Hutton happened upon a blacksmith’s shop, where he saw “one or more females . . . wielding the hammer with all the grace of the [gender].” If Hutton was taken aback, it might not have been so much by the costuming as by finding women working a trade usually practiced by men.

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Primary Source of the Month:
"The Sewing Room at A.T. Stewart’s"

In pre-industrial America, it was assumed by society that a woman’s responsibilities were in the home. Women had a variety of tasks that consumed the majority of each day, including childcare, sewing and mending, cooking, cleaning, food preservation, and general household management. Though some women worked outside the home, this was more the exception than the rule. By the early 1800s this norm began to change rapidly, with increasing numbers of women working outside the home.

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Teaching Strategy: Women in the Workforce

Over the centuries, women’s roles in the workforce have changed significantly. In the 1700s, a woman’s major responsibility was to care for her family and her household. Some women did work outside of the home, but they were the exceptions to the rule. As societal needs and expectations changed, women began to avail themselves of new employment opportunities. Over the centuries, historical events, new technologies, increased access to education, and societal changes have enabled—and sometimes required—women to play a greater role in the workforce.

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Colonial Williamsburg Teaching Resources for Your Classroom

Colonial Williamsburg offers a variety of quality instructional materials dealing with 18th-century life, including:

  • Earning a Living as a Tradesperson in Colonial America (lesson unit)
  • Nancy’s Story: 1765 (book)
  • A Day in the Life (video series)

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Teaching News

March is Women’s History Month, an annual national and international celebration of celebration of women’s history and achievements. For further exploration of the topic, we have assembled some links to several women’s history related web sites.

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Quotation of the Month

"Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly."

—Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President, in
An Autobiography, 1913

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