As an author, Elizabeth wrote about the plight of working women and spent several months in Mexico until she penned a protest denouncing the arrest of a journalist who criticised the ruling regime and she was asked rather unpolitely to leave the country. She went on to New York City where she wrote an expose of a New York city asylum (prompting a grand jury investigation which led to improved conditions) and then proceeded to beat Phileas Fogg (the character in Jules Vernes Around the World in Eighty Days) and arrived back in New York in 72 days.
In 1895 Elizabeth gave up journalism and married a millionaire iron king and became the President of Iron Clad Manufacturing, which under her control manufactured the standard 55 gallon steel drum still in use today. She invented a new type of milk can and after her husband died, she continued to lead the company. Financial setbacks, however, cost her the company and she went back to journalism writing stories during WWI. She died in 1922, but her legacy of undercover journalism and the adventurous young woman lives on.
Close fitting bodice has standup collar and lace inset with ruffle. Bell sleeves are trimmed with lace. Bodice has button closure. Skirt is full with a short train trimmed in ruffles.. Rear closure. See
Edwardian Hats to finish off the ensemble.
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