WEBINAR | Coming of Age: Young Women's Lives in Early 19th Century New England

Recording of the May 22, 2025 Webinar Join Rebecca Beall, Curator of Textiles and Collections Manager, and Brittany Jaarsma, Collections and Research Public Programming Specialist for a discussion about the transition from girlhood to young womanhood in early 19th-century New England. While there were still many restrictions on women’s futures, marriage was not their only option. More and more women were seeking secondary education and finding employment.