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How did amelia bloomer dieBloomer, Amelia Jenks
Amelia Jenks Bloomer was a social radical, a vigorous advocate for temperance, woman’s rights, and dress reform. (Nineteenth-century practice was to use the singular, woman's, when referring to women as a class; later practice was to use the plural, women's.) But she was not a freethinker, remaining a believing Episcopalian all her life.
Amelia cofounded and for seven years edited the nation’s first newspaper for and by women. However ironically, she is best known to history for a style of reform dress she did not design.
Amelia Jenks was born in 1818 at Homer, New York.
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Aged seventeen, she moved to Waterloo, New York, to live with a newly married sister. There she met Seneca Falls newspaper co-owner, law student, and local political activist Dexter Bloomer. Dexter and Amelia married in Waterloo on April 15, 1840.
She was twenty-two. Their ceremony omitted the word obey, then a vigorous assertion of woman’s rights. The next day, the