{"id":4049,"date":"2014-01-22T15:14:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T21:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/drp\/?p=4049"},"modified":"2014-01-22T15:14:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T21:14:06","slug":"women-chautauqua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2014\/01\/22\/women-chautauqua\/","title":{"rendered":"Women on the Chautauqua Circuit: Winsome Lasses and Ardent Advocates"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4050\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4050\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/tc\/id\/55151\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4050\" alt=\"The Marigold Quartette brochure | Traveling Culture - Circuit Chautauqua in the 20th Century\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2014\/01\/marigold.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2014\/01\/marigold.jpg 934w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2014\/01\/marigold-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Marigold Quartette brochure | Traveling Culture &#8211; Circuit Chautauqua in the 20th Century<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>This essay by K\u00e4ren Mason, Curator of the Iowa Women\u2019s Archives, was originally written for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akashicbooks.com\/women-on-the-chautauqua-circuit-winsome-lasses-and-ardent-advocates-by-karen-m-mason-iowa-womens-archives-university-of-iowa-libraries-iowa-city\/\" target=\"_blank\">Akashic Books<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Chautauqua was an eagerly anticipated event in towns across the United States in the early 20th century. Huge tents were erected and a variety of speakers, performances, and children\u2019s activities took place over the week the Chautauqua was in town. Red Oak, Iowa even constructed a permanent Chautauqua Pavilion in 1907, which is still standing and reputed to be the largest covered pavilion west of the Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p>Many women lectured or performed on the Chautauqua circuit. Some, like Marian Elliot Adams, the main character of <i>Unmentionables, <\/i>lectured on women\u2019s reform issues. Women\u2019s suffrage was a popular topic in the years leading up to 1920, when the 19th Amendment at long last gave women the vote. Chautauqua provided an important venue for reformers to reach audiences all across the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/2014\/01\/15\/women-on-the-chautauqua-circuit-winsome-lasses-and-ardent-advocates\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full essay at the Iowa Women&#8217;s Archives blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This essay by K\u00e4ren Mason, Curator of the Iowa Women\u2019s Archives, was originally written for Akashic Books. Chautauqua was an eagerly anticipated event in towns across the United States in the early 20th century. Huge tents were erected and a variety of speakers, performances, and children\u2019s activities took place over the week the Chautauqua was<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2014\/01\/22\/women-chautauqua\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Women on the Chautauqua Circuit: Winsome Lasses and Ardent Advocates&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4051,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions\/4051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4049"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=4049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}