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Universal themes that have surfaced during our research and reading:

  • Dashed dreams

  • No or low pay for women

  • Pedigree and social classes

  • Women-- poverty and domestic violence 

  • Social and professional roles and opportunities for women

  • New awareness and perception of Native Americans 

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A bit of historical context to help situate the characters and their world:

  • The Progressive Movement

  • The Chicago Renaissance

  • The Ecology Movement and the struggle to save the Indiana Dunes

  • The rise of private elite girls' colleges and what they were learning beyond math, science, philosophy

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