Even in her own lifetime Amelia Bloomer was best known for wearing, as well as editorially defending and popularizing, "bifurcated trowsers"; although the costume was not her own invention, she was de...
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An American advocate of woman's rights in the early days of the feminist movement, Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1818-1894) spent most of her life working for the cause. She was also a reformer of women's clo...
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