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Not all wives : women of colonial Philadelphia

Author: Karin A Wulf
Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This book uses such sources as tax lists, censuses, poor relief records, newspapers, correspondence, wills, almanacs, and poetry to discuss the daily experiences of Philadelphia women who were widowed, divorced, separated, or never married.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Karin A Wulf
ISBN: 0801437024 9780801437021
OCLC Number: 41960732
Description: xvii, 217 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction: "Not All Wives": The Problem of Marriage in Early America. Women, Marriage, and the Historical Literature. Aunt Bek's Oddity: Situating Unmarried Women in Urban and Regional Cultures --
Ch. 1. Martha Cooper's Choice: Literature and Mentality. Representations of Marriage: Tyrants and Virgins. Counter-Claims: Liberated Spinsters. Reading, Writing, and Learning Singleness --
Ch. 2. Elizabeth Norris's Reign: Religion and Self. Quaker Culture and a Female Self. Marriage, Religion, and Female Individualism. Singleness and Radical Religious Community in Pennsylvania --
Ch. 3. Mary Sandwith's Spouse: Family and Household. Gender and Household Hierarchy. Unmarried Women in Rural and Urban Households. Widows Keeping House. Servants and Slaves.
Responsibility: Karin Wulf.

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This book uses such sources as tax lists, censuses, poor relief records, newspapers, correspondence, wills, almanacs, and poetry to discuss the daily experiences of Philadelphia women who were widowed, divorced, separated, or never married.

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