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  • Wisconsin Magazine of History

    Letter from the Editor

    Nov 25, 2022 2 minutes

    his issue of WMH spotlights the stories of three women from different eras and backgrounds: Yee Shee Wong, a Chinese American immigrant who settled in Beloit in the 1920s; Anna Ott, a doctor in 1850s Madison whose tumultuous home life played out in public divorce proceedings and institutional confinement; and,

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