Quotes About 1855

spent much of the next two years cowriting and editing her biography.  Emerson was a signatory of the "Declaration of Sentiments" of the first Women's Rights Convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. And in 1855, he attended and addressed the convention in Boston.

THE WARDEN This is the first novel in Trollope's popular series known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire. The novel (Trollope's fourth) was first published in 1855 and was reportedly inspired by a walk around Salisbury cathedral.

In 1855, as the price of paper rose, Dr. Deck proposed to dig up 2 1/2 million tons of Egyptian mummies, ship them to New York, unroll them; and use their linen wrappings to make paper.