Research Catalog

Title

American women writers to 1800 / edited by Sharon M. Harris.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Harris, Sharon M.
• Cairns Collection of American Women Writers WU

Description

xii, 452 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

American Women Writers to 1800 advances our knowledge of early American culture. Including works by more than ninety women, many of whom have never before been published, this ambitious anthology captures the cultural and individual diversity of women's experiences in early America. It both complements and extends earlier studies of colonial and Revolutionary America, with writings that observe the natural features and resources of the "New World"; the proliferation of religious movements; racial relations between Native Americans, African Americans, and European settlers; and patriotic and loyalist sympathies during the Revolutionary years. Selections also confront distinctly feminist issues, focusing on women's education; the psychological complexities of girlhood, marriage and childbirth; sexuality; the legal status of women; and the rise of feminist philosophies at the end of the eighteenth century. Along with well-known Massachusetts writers such as Bradstreet, Rowlandson, and Knight, this collection presents works by authors from other New England, mid-Atlantic, and southern colonies, by African American and Native American women, and by women who explored the frontier regions. An impressive variety of genres is represented, with extensive selections of memoirs, letters, diaries, poetry, captivity narratives, Native American narratives, essays, sermons, autobiographies, novels, dramas, and scientific and political tracts. American Women Writers to 1800 offers rich ground for a radical rethinking of early American women's lives and writing, while challenging our assumptions regarding early America itself. - Back cover.

Subject

• Johannes Stobaeus ca. 5. Jh
• 1600-1850
• Geschichte 1630-1800
• American literature > History and criticism
• Women and literature > United States > History > 18th century
• Women and literature > United States > History > 17th century
• United States > Intellectual life > 18th century

Genre/Form

• History
• Literary collections
• Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-431) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The Ages of Women -- The Seven Stars (Blackfoot) -- Two Sisters and the Porcupine (Menomini) -- Mary Downing (fl. 1630s, Massachusetts) -- Sarah ("Sally") Eve (1749/50-1774, Pennsylvania) -- Elizabeth Sprigs (fl. 1756, Maryland) -- Anna Green Winslow (1759-1779, Massachusetts) -- Eliza Southgate Bowne (1783-1809, Maine) -- Lucinda Lee (fl. 1787, Virginia) -- How Women Learn to Grind (Zuni) -- Anne ("Nancy") Shippen Livingston (1763-1841, Pennsylvania) -- Hannah Langdom (fl. 1789, Pennsylvania) -- Priscilla Mason (fl. 1793, Pennsylvania) -- Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820, Massachusetts) -- Charlotte Sheldon (fl. 1780-c 1840, Connecticut) -- The Ignorant Housekeeper and The Wren and the Cricket (Cherokee) -- Maria van Cortlandt van Rensselaer (1645-1689, New York) -- Mary Wright Cooper (1714-1778, New York) -- Abigail Abbott Bailey (1746-1815, New Hampshire) -- Judith Cocks (fl. 1795, Georgia) -- Susan Livingston Symmes (fl. 1794-1808, Maryland/Ohio) --^
• Martha Laurens Ramsay (1759-1811, South Carolina) -- Rebecca Dickinson (1738-1815, Massachusetts) -- Elizaabeth Sandwith Drinker (1734-1807, Pennsylvania) -- Martha Daniell Logan (1704-1779, South Carolina) -- Deborah Read Franklin (1708-1774, Pennsylvania) -- Eliza Lucas Pickney (c. 1722-1793, South Carolina) -- Coosaponakessa (Mary Musgrove Matthews Bosomworth) (c. 1700-post 1760, Georgia) -- Mary Katherine Goddard (1738-1816, Maryland) -- Skate'ne (Choctaw) -- Sarah Whipple Goodhur (1641-1681, Massachusetts) -- Hannah Hill, Jr. (c. 1703-1714, Pennsylvania) -- Rebekah Chambilt (?-1733, Massachusetts) -- Elizabeth Magawley (fl. 1730-31, Pennsylvania) -- "Aspasia" (fl. 1776-89) -- Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson (1737-1801, Pennsylvania) -- Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820, Massachusetts) -- Sarah Pierce (1767-1852, Connecticut) -- Sky Woman (Iroquois) -- The First Ship (Chinook) -- Margaret Tyndal Winthrop (c. 1591-1647, Massachusetts) -- Susanna Moseley (fl. 1649-50, Virginia) --^
• Katherine Marbury Scott (fl. 1658, Rhode Island) -- Barbara Smith (fl. 1689, Maryland) -- Mary Herendean Pray (fl. 1675, Rhode Island) -- Hannah Callowhill Penn (1671-1726, Pennsylvania) -- Mary Stafford (fl. 1711, South Carolina) -- Elizabeth Bland (fl. 1735, Georgia) -- The Ghost Bride and The Ghost Wife (Pawnee) -- Two Girls and the Dancers (Zuni) -- Sister Crackbone (fl c. 1640, Massachusetts) -- Mary Traske and Margaret Smith (fl. 1660, Massachusetts) -- Bathsheba Bowers (c. 1672-1718, Pennsylvania) -- Jane Fenn Hoskens (1694-?, Pennsylvania) -- Sophia Wigington Hume (1702-1774, South Carolina) -- Jemima Wilkinson (1752-1819, Rhode Island) -- Mary White Rowlandson (1637?-1711, Massachusetts) -- Sarah Kemble Knight (1666-1727, Massachusetts) -- Elizabeth Meador Hanson (1684-1741, New Hampshire) -- Mary Lewis Kinnan (1763-1848, Virginia) -- Mary Coburn Dewees (fl. 1787-88, Pennsylvania/Kentucky) -- The Winthrop Women (1630s-1640s, Massachusetts) --^
• Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818, Massachusetts) and Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814, Massachusetts) -- The Norris-Fisher-Zane Circle (1780s, New Jersey/Pennsylvania) -- Mary Easty (fl. 1692, Massachusetts) -- New York Widows (1733, New York) -- Belinda (fl. 1782, New York) -- Esther DeBerdt Reed (1747-1780, Pennsylvania) -- Letitia Cunningham (fl. 1783, Pennsylvania) -- Women of Wilmington, North Carolina (1782, North Carolina) -- Petition of the Young Ladies (1787, United States) -- Margaretta Van Wyck Bleecker Faugéres (1771-1801, New York) -- Susanna Wright (197-1784, Pennsylvania) -- Mary Willing Byrd (1740-1814, Virginia) -- Mary Bartlett (?-1789, New Hampshire) -- Mary ("Molly") Brant (Mohawk,?-1796) -- Patience Lovell Wright (1725-1786, New Jersey/London) -- Ann Gwinnett (?-post.1780, Georgia) -- Dorothy Dudley (fl. 1775-76, Massachusetts) -- Margaret Hill Morris (1737-1816, Maryland/New Jersey) -- Lydia Minturn Post (fl. 1776-83, New York) --^
• Sarah Wister (1761-1804, Pennsylvania) -- Native American Songs (Omaha Hopik Ojibway, and Osage) -- Anne Dudley Bradstreet (1612-1672, Massachusetts) -- Martha Wadsworth Brewster (fl. 1725-57, Massachusetts) -- Hannah Griffitts (1727-1817, Pennsylvania) -- Lucy Terry (Prince) (1730-1821, Massachusetts/Vermont) -- Sarah Parsons Moorhead (fl. 1741-42, Massachusetts) -- Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson (1737-1801, Pennsylvania) -- Ann Eliza Schuyler Bleecker (1752-1783, New York) -- Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784, Massachusetts) -- Anna Young (Smith) (1756-1780, Pennsylvania) -- Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton (1759-1846, Massachusetts) -- Anonymous Women Poets -- Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814, Massachusetts) -- Hannah Adams (1855-1831, Massachusetts) -- Louisa Susannah Wells (Aikman) (c. 1755-1831, South Carolina) -- Eliza Yonge Wilkinson (fl. 1779-82, South Carolina) -- Eliza Yonge Wilkinson (fl. 1779-82, South Carolina) -- Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820, Massachusetts) --^
• Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820, Massachusetts) -- Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814, Massachusetts) -- Margaretta Van Wyck Bleekrer Faugeres (1771-1801, New York) -- Susanna Haswell Rowson (1761-1824, Massachusetts) -- Ann Eliza Schuyler Bleecker (1752-1783, New York) -- Hannah Webster Foster (1758-1840, Massachusetts) -- Tabith Gilman Tenney (1762-1837, Massachusetts) -- Notable Early American Women.

ISBN

0195084535

LCCN

^^^94048119^

OCLC

• 31753947
• SCSB-11043228

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library