Author: Anne Home Shippen LivingstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Nancy Shippen, Her Journal Book
Author: Anne Home Shippen LivingstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Nancy Shippen, her journal book : the international romance of a young lady of fashion of colonial Philadelphia, with letters to her and about her
Author: Anne Hume LivingstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Nancy Shippen, Her Journal Book
Author: Nancy ShippenNancy Shippen, Her Journal Book
Author: Anne Home Shippen LivingstonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781404782488
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Nancy Shippen, Her Journal Book
Author: Anne H. LivingstonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780781282482
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Bonded Leather binding
Nancy Shippen: Her Journal Book. The International Romance of a Young Lady of Fashion of Colonial Philadelphia, with Letters to Her and about Her. Compiled and Edited by Ethel Armes. Illustrated with Portraits, Fac-similes and Prints
Author: afterwards LIVINGSTON SHIPPEN (Anne Home)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Women’s Narratives of the Early Americas and the Formation of Empire
Author: Mary McAleer BalkunPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 113754323X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The essays in this collection examine the connections between the forces of empire and women's lives in the early Americas, in particular the ways their narratives contributed to empire formation. Focusing on the female body as a site of contestation, the essays describe acts of bravery, subversion, and survival expressed in a variety of genres, including the saga, letter, diary, captivity narrative, travel narrative, verse, sentimental novel, and autobiography. The volume also speaks to a range of female experience, across the Americas and across time, from the Viking exploration to early nineteenth-century United States, challenging scholars to reflect on the implications of early American literature even to the present day.
Women's Letters
Author: Lisa GrunwaldPublisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN: 0307493334
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
Historical events of the last three centuries come alive through these women’s singular correspondences—often their only form of public expression. In 1775, Rachel Revere tries to send financial aid to her husband, Paul, in a note that is confiscated by the British; First Lady Dolley Madison tells her sister about rescuing George Washington’s portrait during the War of 1812; one week after JFK’s assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy pens a heartfelt letter to Nikita Khrushchev; and on September 12, 2001, a schoolgirl writes a note of thanks to a New York City firefighter, asking him, “Were you afraid?” The letters gathered here also offer fresh insight into the personal milestones in women’s lives. Here is a mid-nineteenth-century missionary describing a mastectomy performed without anesthesia; Marilyn Monroe asking her doctor to spare her ovaries in a handwritten note she taped to her stomach before appendix surgery; an eighteen-year-old telling her mother about her decision to have an abortion the year after Roe v. Wade; and a woman writing to her parents and in-laws about adopting a Chinese baby. With more than 400 letters and over 100 stunning photographs, Women’s Letters is a work of astonishing breadth and scope, and a remarkable testament to the women who lived–and made–history. From the Hardcover edition.
The Letters of Mary Penry
Author: Scott Paul GordonPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271082844
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
In The Letters of Mary Penry, Scott Paul Gordon provides unprecedented access to the intimate world of a Moravian single sister. This vast collection of letters—compiled, transcribed, and annotated by Gordon—introduces readers to an unmarried woman who worked, worshiped, and wrote about her experience living in Moravian religious communities at the time of the American Revolution and early republic. Penry, a Welsh immigrant and a convert to the Moravian faith, was well connected in both the international Moravian community and the state of Pennsylvania. She counted among her acquaintances Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker and Hannah Callender Sansom, two American women whose writings have also been preserved, in addition to members of some of the most prominent families in Philadelphia, such as the Shippens, the Franklins, and the Rushes. This collection brings together more than seventy of Penry’s letters, few of which have been previously published. Gordon’s introduction provides a useful context for understanding the letters and the unique woman who wrote them. This collection of Penry’s letters broadens perspectives on early America and the eighteenth-century Moravian Church by providing a sustained look at the spiritual and social life of a single woman at a time when singleness was extraordinarily rare. It also makes an important contribution to the recovery of women’s voices in early America, amplifying views on politics, religion, and social networks from a time when few women’s perspectives on these subjects have been preserved.
The Work of the Heart
Author: Martha Tomhave BlauveltPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813925974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Showing work where none seemed to exist, The Work of the Heart suggests emotion work as a key measure of women's status, whether for the twenty-first century or the eighteenth, and offers an analytical tool for historians exploring the self.