19th-Century Women Shatter The Demure Stereotype In This Recovered Newspaper Article

May The Best Opinion Win

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There was even a prize for The New York Evening Newspaper’s competition: Whoever submitted the best tips for “husband management” won a whopping $20 — that’s the equivalent of about $570 today. All that for writing your opinion on men and sending it into a newspaper? It sounded like a good deal to women of the 19th century.