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BLOOMER, AMELIA JENKS (1818-1894)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 86 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BLA-BOS
BLOOMER, AMELIA JENKS (1818-1894) , American dress-reformer and women's rights advocate, was born at Homer, New
York
 , on the 27th of May 1818. After her
marriage
  in 184o she established a periodical called The Lily, which had some success. In 1849 she took up the ideapreviously originated by Mrs Elizabeth
Smith
  Miller--of a reform in woman's dress, and the wearing of a short skirt, with loose trousers, gathered round the ankles. The name of " bloomers " gradually became popularly attached to any divided-skirt or knickerbocker dress for women. Until her death on the 3oth of December 1894 Mrs Bloomer took a prominent part in the temperance campaign and in that for woman's suffrage.


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