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Art and handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 (1894)

Elliott, Maud Howe, 1854-1948 · Chicago : Rand, McNally · leaf 261

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inthe gallantry that is always accorded to Spain by people who thinkof our country with romantic ideas, but is due to the Christianprinciple that woman is the equal of man. The law of the country gives equal rights to rule to women andto men, and Spain boasts of such queens as Isabella the… … IN THE WOMANS BUILDING. 259 Blanca and Berenguela, mothers of two great kings and two saints,San Ferdinand of Spain and Saint Louis of France. The law gives to woman such a prominent place in the familythat we have what is called los gananciales—that is to say, the gainsin marriage; this implies…

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