The first publication of the entire journal of Sarah Wister, a young woman who form 1777 to 1780 wrote of her experiences to share with her two closest friends. Her writings, which represent both an autobiographical and a historical document of the Revolutionary War period, are supplemented in this edition by comprehensive annotations and introductory material.
workers in the workforce and then detail the “ plight ” of women in professional and managerial positions . ... Howland , who came to Fair Hope late in life and actively pursued women's emancipation , was a follower of Fourier and ...
This comprehensive collection of writings from the War of Independence poses a “subtle but profound challenge to much that we think we know about the founders and their era” (Los Angeles Times) Drawn from letters, diaries, newspaper ...
Presents the diary of the sixteen-year-old daughter of a prominent Quaker family who moved with her family from British-occupied Philadelphia for the safety of the countryside during the Revolutionary War.
Karen E. Rowe, “Prophetic Visions: Typology and Colonial American Poetry,” in White, ed., Puritan Poets and Poetics, 59–62; William Scheick, “Standing in the Gap: Urian Oakes's Elegy on Thomas Shepard,” Early American Literature, ...
Sally Wister is most noted for her Revolutionary-era journal; Kathryn Zabelle Derounian, ed., The Journal and Occasional Writings of Sarah Wister (Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1987). 6. Jane Bayard to Sally ...
For Those Who Came After : A Study of Native American Autobiography . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of ... Landscape and Written Expression in Revolutionary America . ... Research Library of Colonial Americana Reprint .
Hamilton to James Duane , [ Liberty Pole , New Jersey , 3 September 1780 ] , in Harold C. Syrett and Jacob E. Cook ... George Washington to Joseph Reed , Headquarters New Windsor , 5 ( –7 ] May 1781 , in John C. Fitzpatrick , ed .
The Papers of General Nathanael Greene . Vol . 4 : /7 May 1779-31 October 1779. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press for the Rhode Island Historical Society , 1986. ISBN 080781668X ; OCLC 2331814 ; LC Call Number E207 .
Wister, Sarah. The Journal and Occasional Writings of Sarah Wister. Edited by Kathryn Zabelle Derounian. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1987. Zinzendorf, Nicholas Ludwig von. Nine Public Lectures on Important ...
26, 1773, Special Collections, William R. Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, N.C. ... Joseph Price describes a Quaker wedding where the men were “divideing the Bucks among the lasses” and “we hug and Kiss them agreeable to Custom ...