Women who attempted to venture into the public sphere during the 19th
century were seen by most people as all of the following, except
a) innovative.
b) lower class.
c) unfeminine
d) brazen
on.

A) innovative

Explanation:

"We often view the nineteenth century as fundamentally defined by its traditional notion of gender roles, especially as embodied in the cult of domesticity...Domestic ideology, or the cult of domesticity, can be defined as a series of related ideas that characterized the family home as the particular domain of the woman, that idealized the woman in the home (the angel in house) as the center of spiritual and moral goodness for the nuclear family, and that based these ideas in the belief that women were innately weaker—both physically and intellectually—and less capable of taking care of themselves in the rough and tumble public sphere."

Resource:  https://courses.lumenlearning.com/americanlit1/chapter/reading-womens-sphere-and-the-emergence-of-the-womens-rights-movement/

I hope this helps!

it was on the rise and doing very well and would continue to do well until the great depression from 1929-1939