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Liberty's daughters : the revolutionary experience of American women, 1750-1800 : with a new preface / Mary Beth Norton.
- Title
- Liberty's daughters : the revolutionary experience of American women, 1750-1800 : with a new preface / Mary Beth Norton.
- Author
- Norton, Mary Beth
- Publication
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1996.
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Details
- Description
- xxii, 384 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- First published in 1980, Liberty's Daughters is widely considered a landmark book on the history of American women and on the Revolution itself. Norton brilliantly portrays a dramatic transformation of women's private lives in the wake of the Revolution. This fascinating human story includes lively anecdotes and revealing details from the personal papers of 450 eighteenth-century families. - Publisher.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Sources
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-374) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Part one : The constant patterns of women's lives. The small circle of domestic concerns -- The important crisis upon which our fate depends -- Fair flowers if rightly cultivated -- In what would you shew your activity? -- As independent as circumstances will admit -- Part two : The changing patterns of women's lives. We commenced perfect statesmen -- Necessity taught us -- A reverence of self -- Vindicating the equality of female intellect -- Conclusion : A new era of female history.
- ISBN
- 0801483476 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^96012247^
- OCLC
- 34355626
- SCSB-11544711
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library