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Virginia Hume

Virginia Hume

National bestselling author of Haven Point and Liberty Island (St. Martin's Press); former political communications professional.

Jul 31, 2026

7:18
and then ending with
7:20
the suffrage victory and prohibition.
7:22
But really at the beginning parts from the 1910 to really into the beginning of when the US entered World War I, these ideas were really percolating.
7:34
This was the time, for example, in New York, and this story is partially set in New York.
7:38
Julia goes to Barnard College starting in 1910.
7:42
That's when Greenwich Village, which had primarily been an ethnic neighborhood began to attract all the artists and writers and musicians and all the modernist movement was in many ways born there.
7:53
And it's kind of funny because these ideas that percolated, some of which were good riddance to bad rubbish, in terms of women's rights and opportunities, and a lot of them were rigid notions from the late Victorian period.

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15:13
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