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Halloween was once steeped in the tradition of belief that the veil between this world and the next was thinnest at this time of year and so was considered a time when fortunes could be best told. ... Via Deanna Dahlsad, Gracie Passette 
Deanna Dahlsad's curator insight,
October 27, 2014 3:46 PM
I also wrote an in-depth article on Halloween doll history for the Dolls By Diane newsletter; if you aren't a subscriber, and would like to read it, I can get you a copy :)
Deanna Dahlsad's curator insight,
October 27, 2014 3:50 PM
I also wrote an in-depth article on Halloween doll history for the Dolls By Diane newsletter; if you aren't a subscriber, and would like to read it, I can get you a copy :) |
They were a part of a growing group of women in antebellum New England who had decided they wouldn’t be happy married to the men who had courted them — and decided to seek fulfillment outside the home.
The article explores the seemingly paradoxical connection between the idealization of love and marriage and the reluctance of many women to marry in nineteenth-century New England. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3789171?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents