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	Amelia Bloomer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amelia Jenks Bloomer (May 27, 1818—December 30, 1894) was an American women's rights and temperance advocate.
		When Amelia was 22, she married a lawyer by the name of Dexter Bloomer.He encouraged her to write for his newspaper, The Seneca Falls County Courier.
		She moved to Iowa in 1852, and from 1871 until 1873, Amelia served as president of the Iowa Woman Suffrage Association.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amelia_Bloomer (187 words)

	Petition of Amelia Bloomer Regarding Suffrage in the West
		At the age of 30, Bloomer witnessed, although she did not actively participate in, the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, the launch of the suffrage movement that culminated in the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920.
		Amelia Bloomer of Council Bluffs, Iowa Regarding Suffrage in the West, 1878," is that petition.
		Bloomer's speaking and writing in the late 19th century echoed the spirit of perfectionism that had set the scene for her work in designing fashion to free women; her work now suggested that the public policies expanding suffrage, not the Bloomer costume, would free women.
	www.archives.gov /education/lessons/bloomer (1318 words)

	Amelia Jenks Bloomer - LoveToKnow 1911
		AMELIA JENKS BLOOMER (1818-1894), American dressreformer and women's rights advocate, was born at Homer, New York, on the 27th of May 1818.
		In 1849 she took up the idea-previously 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.
		Until her death on the 30th of December 1894 Mrs Bloomer took a prominent part in the temperance campaign and in that for woman's suffrage.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Amelia_Jenks_Bloomer (146 words)

	Amelia Bloomer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Amelia Bloomer lived in Seneca Falls in 1848, but was not an active participant in the Convention.
		Bloomer was not not an early advocate of all of the other ideas promoted by the early women's rights workers.
		Bloomer began a career as a speaker in 1852, which she continued after she moved to Iowa in 1855.
	www.nps.gov /wori/bloomer.htm (277 words)

	National Women's Hall of Fame - Women of the Hall
		Bloomer, a woman of modest means and little education, nevertheless felt driven to work against social injustice and inequity -- and her personal convictions inspired countless other women to similar efforts.
		Bloomer was also known for her support for the outfit of tunic and full "pantelettes," initially worn by actress Fanny Kemble and others, including Stanton.
		Bloomer remained a suffrage pioneer and writer throughout her life, leading suffrage campaigns in Nebraska and Iowa, as well as writing for a wide array of periodicals.
	www.greatwomen.org /women.php?action=viewone&id=22 (439 words)

	DesMoinesRegister.com \| Famous Iowans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bloomer didn't design the then-daring outfit that carries her name: a short dress that reaches to below the knees, with Turkish-style pantaloons gathered in ruffles at the ankle.
		Bloomer was born in Homer, N.Y., the fifth and youngest child of Lucy and Ananias Jenks.
		Amelia Bloomer lectured across the country on women's issues and was visited in Council Bluffs by her peers, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady.
	desmoinesregister.com /extras/iowans/bloomer.html (241 words)

	Jenks Bloomer, Amelia
		In 1848, Bloomer attended the first women's rights convention in the United States, which was held in Seneca Falls The next year, she began to publish the Lily, a newspaper dedicated to gaining women suffrage and equal economic and educational opportunities as men.
		Bloomers consisted of a loose-fitting blouse, a knee-length skirt, and baggy pants.
		As a result, Amelia Bloomer actively encouraged women to forsake this style of dress for the cooler outfit that still bears her name.
	www.ohiohistorycentral.org /entry.php?rec=42 (451 words)

	Bloomerland.com - Official website of C.Tyler
		Amelia Jenks was born in Homer, N.Y., in May, 1818.
		Amelia, along with many of her peers in the women's movement, adopted the comfortable style, and she promoted it in The Lily.
		When Amelia and Dexter moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1855, she gave up publishing The Lily, but remained active in the campaign for women's rights.
	www.bloomerland.com /links.htm (518 words)

	Biographical History of Pottawattmie Co., IA - Amelia BLOOMER
		Bloomer was an attorney, and also, at the time of their marriage and for some years after, editor and one of the publishers of a county newspaper.
		Bloomer first appeared on the platform as a public speaker, and she, in company with other advocates of temperance and Woman's Rights, in the winter of that year addressed large and attentive audiences in all large cities of the State.
		Bloomer continued to wear it for some six years; and she is still a firm believer that its general use would tend to promote the comfort and health of her sex.
	homepages.rootsweb.com /~gonfishn/bhopci/b/bloomera.html (838 words)

	Amelia Bloomer
		Amelia endorsed the outfit in The Lily and wore it to speaking engagements.
		Bloomers and Amelia were attacked as decadent from pulpits to courtrooms and servant's quarters to gentlemen's clubs.
		Amelia Jenks Bloomer died Dec. 30, 1894, at her home in Council Bluffs, and was buried in Fairview Cemetery.
	www.rootsweb.com /~iapottaw/Bloomer.htm (968 words)

	Bloomer Amelia Jenks - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bloomer, Amelia Jenks (1818-1894), American reformer, born in Homer, New York.
		Bloomer, Amelia Jenks (quotations): Feminism: We all felt that the dress was drawing…
		Another notable aspect of Victorian fashion was the various “dress reform” movements, now chiefly associated with American feminist Amelia Bloomer,...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Bloomer_Amelia_Jenks.html (121 words)

	Hear Me Patiently: The Reform Speeches of Amelia Jenks Bloomer (Contributions in Women's Studies) by Anne C. Coon ...
		Bloomer lived in Seneca Falls, New York, and was the founder of a woman's newspaper, the Lily.
		Bloomer was an extremely popular public speaker who traveled throughout New York State and the mid-West lecturing on temperance and greater opportunities for women in employment and education.
		This volume is the only collection of her speeches, and Coon's introduction creates a narrative of Bloomer's life as the story of a shy, modest woman whose commitment to reform and the endorsement of a new style of women's dress catapulted her into public life.
	www.gettextbooks.com /isbn_0313290865.html (194 words)

	Women's Rights NHP: Special History Study (Chapter 4)
		Bloomer obviously had strong convictions on the ability and right of women to do whatever they felt they were capable of, as evidenced by her involvement with The Lily and the post office, but whether she thought of herself in 1848 as an advocate of women's rights other than through personal example, is uncertain.
		Amelia Bloomer felt that she was providing the better practical example of women's equality through her work at the post office and The Lily, while Elizabeth Cady Stanton felt that her work to develop a network and philosophy for the movement was ultimately more significant.
		Bloomer and Anthony were already acquainted with one another through their temperance work, and in the spring of 1850, Anthony was staying at the Bloomer house while attending an antislavery lecture in the village.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/wori/shs4.htm (6234 words)

	Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Amelia Bloomer 20 July 1848
		Amelia Jenks was born in New York in 1818, reared as a Presbyterian, and as a young woman became an activist for the anti-slavery, anti-alcohol, and women's votes movements.
		Bloomer designed a women's costume featuring what are known as Turkish pants, or harem pants (remember the television show I Dream of Jeannie), loose baggy trousers gathered into tight bands at the ankles and waist.
		Bloomer and her husband eventually settled in Council Bluffs, Iowa, where she worked to promote churches, schools, libraries, and progressive and reform movements.
	www.missionstclare.com /english/people/jul20.html (951 words)

	Amazon.com: You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer: Books: Shana Corey,Chesley Mclaren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Amelia pronounces the outfit "Brilliant!" and publicizes it in the women's newspaper that she edits.
		Amelia Bloomer is a wonderful heroine and my daughter never tires of emulating her.
		Amelia Bloomer was always looking for a way to fight for womens rights, and to change the way women had to dress.
	www.amazon.com /Forgot-Your-Skirt-Amelia-Bloomer/dp/0439078199 (1953 words)

	www.iowaccess.org \| Department of Human Rights \| Status of Women
		Amelia Jenks Bloomer will always be remembered as the popularizer of bloomers, the reform dress costume worn by women's rights advocates in the mid-1800s.
		Bloomer helped found the Iowa Woman Suffrage Association and was elected president in 1871 at the first annual convention in Des Moines.
		Bloomer was inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame in 1975.
	www.state.ia.us /government/dhr/sw/iafame-bloomer.html (211 words)

	Amelia Bloomer
		Amelia’s dedication to such issues even compelled her to become part of a women’s dress reform.
		Amelia Bloomer was, of course, an exception to the nineteenth-century rule for women.
		Bloomer was outraged at the treatment of women, but especially of wives.
	www2.kenyon.edu /Khistory/frontier/ameliabloomer.htm (1215 words)

	Science of Baseball: The Girls of Summer: page 2
		Amelia Bloomer designed and wore the loose-fitting, Turkish-style trousers that carried her name, and made sports more practical for women athletes.
		Bloomer Girls teams rarely played each other, but "barnstormed" across America, challenging local town, semi-pro, and minor league men's teams to an afternoon on the diamond.
		The Bloomer Girls teams dwindled as more and more minor league teams -- farm clubs -- were formed to provide experience for young men on their climb up to the majors.
	www.exploratorium.edu /baseball/girls_2.html (272 words)

	Amelia Bloomer
		Over the next few years Bloomer used the journal to promote the causes of woman's suffrage, temperance, marriage law reform and higher education for women.
		Bloomer began to advocate the wearing of clothes that had first been worn by Fanny Wright and the women living in the socialist commune, New Harmony in the 1820s.
		Bloomer and other campaigners for women's rights such as Susan Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton began wearing these clothes.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAWbloomer.htm (344 words)

	Bloomers \| Our name (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bloomer's day were heavy and cumbersome and picked up everything from the unpaved streets.
		Bloomer describe them in her magazine, and wear them when she lectured, then the furor began.
		Bloomers, the nation's first and only all-female, all-original collegiate musical comedy troupe, was conceived in the spring of 1978 when several freshwomen sought an opportunity to perform musical comedy.
	dolphin.upenn.edu /~bloomers/name.html (171 words)

	The Rational Dress Movement
		Amelia Bloomer was immediately taken with the costume, adopted it herself, and promoted it in her magazine.
		Women dressed in the Bloomer costume were often unceremoniously ejected from lecture halls or churches.
		Their lack of popularity in Great Britain was further ensured when a ball in which all women in attendance were supposed to wear the bloomer outfit, was crashed by a large party of prostitutes, and resulted in an orgy of sorts.
	www.mpmbooks.com /amelia/RATIONAL.HTM (1376 words)

	The Maritime Heritage Project: Gold Rush Ships, Passengers, Captains
		She didn't wear the new Bloomers, as they were initially called, and hated that they were named after her.
		Until young ladies began strolling along public streets in their Bloomers, even riding pants were meant to be concealed under the skirts of the riding habit.
		Bloomer balls are becoming all the rage in the small towns of Massachusetts.
	www.maritimeheritage.org /newtale/bloomers.html (2704 words)

	Amelia Bloomer
		Known for her leading role in promoting (much-needed) dress reform for women, Bloomer was also a committed feminist and temperance worker.
		Although Bloomer was never wholly successful in the dress reform which has kept her famous, the ideal of the "sensible women" promoted by the Lily inspired numerous feminists, including Louisa May Alcott, who explicitly addressed dress reform in Eight Cousins, and invariably created down-to-earth heroines struggling to become "sensible women."
		Bloomer wrote about Iowa's suffrage movement for the History of Woman Suffrage (1881-1886), an early attempt by Stanton and others to record and honor the efforts of men and women on behalf of women's emancipation.
	www.cwrl.utexas.edu /~ulrich/RHE309/vicfembios/ameliabloomer.htm (385 words)

	Rebel without a Skirt - Cultural Context
		After Amelia Bloomer described the new costume in her temperance and women's rights paper The Lily, the new garment became known as "bloomers." The outfit included not only the billowy pantaloons but also a skirt that came below the knees worn over them (Sigerman 249-250).
		For a picture of Amelia Bloomer wearing her bloomers, click on the website of the Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, NY.
		Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Elizabeth Smith Miller, Amelia Bloomer, and other women who wore bloomers found themselves at the center of controversy over their dress style.
	www.kennesaw.edu /hss/wwork/domesticity/mh/bloomers_cc.htm (384 words)

	bloomer costume
		Bloomer in fact did not device bloomers, but merely endorse them as a practical alternative for the restrictive women's fashions of the era.
		Bloomer in her paper became a voice for Stanton and other advocates of women's interests.
		While bloomers were not adopted as a popular style, they were an important step toward develop more sensible clothing, especially in sports where bloomers were worn.
	histclo.com /style/casual/bloomer.html (881 words)

	Bloomer, Amelia Jenks - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		BLOOMER, AMELIA JENKS [Bloomer, Amelia Jenks] 1818-94, American reformer, b.
		In 1851 she recommended and adopted the reformed dress of short skirt and full trousers introduced by Elizabeth Smith Miller.
		Because she advertised it in the Lily and wore it in her lecture work, it became universally known as the Bloomer costume, or bloomers.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-bloomer.html (208 words)

	History of Bloomers
		Amelia Bloomer of Council Bluff, Iowa, corrects the Chicago Tribune.
		Bloomer, the female suffragist, first obtained her knowledge of the costume which she afterwards claimed as her personal invention.” etc.
		A Fair Retort—A young lady, dressed in the Bloomer costume, who had wit as well as independence, was present at an evening party a short time since, where she attracted the attention of the gentlemen and the sneers of some of the ladies.
	www.spirithistory.com /blomer.html (1737 words)

	Reviews of Children's Books -- Writers Write -- The IWJ
		She was inspired when she saw a new outfit of pants (or bloomers as they were later called) worn by the cousin of her friend, feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
		This delightful picture book tells the story of Amelia Bloomer, her refusal to be proper, and her fashion forward statement with snappy prose and the wonderful and vivid gouache illustrations of Chesley McLaren.
		When Amelia wears her new outfit she hears, "You forgot your skirt, Amelia Bloomer!" from an impertinent little boy.
	www.writerswrite.com /journal/may00/child3.htm (340 words)

	Bloomer, Amelia J.
		In 1848, Bloomer attended the first women’s rights convention in the United States, which was held in Seneca Falls.
		The next year, she began to publish the Lily, a newspaper dedicated to gaining women suffrage and equal economic and educational opportunities as men.
		Amelia continued to publish the Lily for another year after moving to Ohio.
	www.ohiohistorycentral.org /entry.php?rec=1864 (451 words)

	Amelia Bloomer in United States Federal Census Records
		Amelia Jenks Bloomer was born in Homer, New York, in 1818.
		At age twenty-two, in 1840, she married lawyer Dexter Bloomer.
		Amelia Bloomer published the first edition of her own newspaper, The Lily, devoted entirely to women’s issues, including suffrage, temperance, education, and fashion.
	www.rootdig.com /amelia_bloomer.html (160 words)

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