julia gardner oh, sorry. julia gardner the future mrs. john tyler was born in new york in 1820, during the post-revolution arie war era of the early republic. julia lived in a time of transition as the elite revolutionary past receded and the antebellum or pre-civil war era of the common man came into being. i will mention three aspects of antebellum society and culture that affected julia tyler. a narrow view of ideal womanhood emerged in the antebellum era. separate spheres became a salient concept of the time. the public sphere of politics, government and professional careers was man's domain and the private sphere of family, home and church was women's realm known as the cult of domesticity or the cult of true womanhood. this ideology held that white, upper and middle class women were designed primarily for the roles of wife and mother and were expected to cultivate the for cardinal virtues of piety, purity, submissiveness and domesticity. the true women would perform housekeeping, very good children and make her family's home a haven

julia gardner oh, sorry. julia gardner the future mrs. john tyler was born in new york in 1820, during the post-revolution arie war era of the early republic. julia lived in a time of transition as the elite revolutionary past receded and the antebellum or pre-civil war era of the common man came into being. i will mention three aspects of antebellum society and culture that affected julia tyler. a narrow view of ideal womanhood emerged in the antebellum era. separate spheres became a salient concept of the time. the public sphere of politics, government and professional careers was man's domain and the private sphere of family, home and church was women's realm known as the cult of domesticity or the cult of true womanhood. this ideology held that white, upper and middle class women were designed primarily for the roles of wife and mother and were expected to cultivate the for cardinal virtues of piety, purity, submissiveness and domesticity. the true women would perform housekeeping, very good children and make her family's home a haven

gardner, who had been nicknamed the rose of long island by an admirer. so the rose by inserting the rose into the lithograph in july 1844 and by showing tyler in hot pursuit. james bailey adapted the work of baker to help him make a political statement about the presidential election. and this is something else that the lithography trade really engaged in. you would have lithography built on the work of other lithography firms if they knew that a particular image or a particular concept had actually penetrated the public consciousness. and what he's doing here, what bailey is doing here, particularly for a new york audience, is to hearken back to the rows of long island lithograph that was published by rafferty baker. next slide, please. bailey continued his assault on the democratic party's desire for annexation in a lithograph published on july 24th, 1844. and he reinforced the motif of his earlier efforts. mattie meeting the texas question, and mattie refers to martin van buren. in this caricature, the woman portraying texas is being carried on a plat