Women’s Evolving RolesMargaret Nelson Stephens

By: Em Cashman

Gov. Lon Stephens29th Gov. 1897-1903

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Missouri Governor’s Mansion

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Boonville

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Jefferson City

Margaret’s Journal

Daily Life

Separate Spheres

Men Women Work/Trade -

Household Politics -Domestic Outdoors -Indoors

A Woman’s Place

The household for so long was seen as woman’s “place”, but what happens when women start infiltrating the men’s “place”?

Blurring the line between men’s space/sphere and women’s.

A Woman’s Place

Margaret the Politician

Margaret the Politician “Is Missouri Run By A Governess?”

-St. Louis Star newspaper

Is a content life a happy life?

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Then and Now

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