Gentlewomen and Learned Ladies: Women and Elite Formation in Eighteenth Century Philadelphia
- ISBN-10
- 0934223947
- ISBN-13
- 9780934223942
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 244
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Associated University Presse
- Author
- Sarah Fatherly
Description
"This book reveals the central role that women played in creating and perpetuating an elite class in the foremost city of colonial British America Early in the eighteenth century, as the city's major merchant families sought to reinforce their power over both newcomer immigrants and upwardly mobile middling sorts, they endeavored to remake themselves into a colonial version of the English gentry." "This book highlights how the intersection of gender and class identities powerfully shaped the lives of privileged women in colonial Philadelphia. This account is based on extensive archival research that includes women's letters and diaries, materials from cultural organizations, British prescriptive literature, Anglican and Quaker religious records, and newspapers. This important study offers fresh insights into colonial America, women's history, urban history, and the British Atlantic world."--BOOK JACKET.
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