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In the Words of Women Louise V. North

In the Words of Women By Louise V. North

In the Words of Women by Louise V. North


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In the Words of Women: The Revolutionary War and the Birth of the Nation, 1765 - 1799 by Louise V. North

In the Words of Women brings together the writings-letters, diaries, journals, pamphlets, poems, plays, depositions, and newspaper articles of women who lived between 1765 and 1799. The writings are organized chronologically around events, battles, and developments from before the Revolution, through its prosecution and aftermath. They reflect the thoughts, observations and experiences of women during those tumultuous times, women less well known to the reading public, including patriots and loyalists; the highborn and lowly; Native Americans and blacks, both free and enslaved; the involved and observers; the young and old; and those in between. Brief narrative passages provide historical context, and information about the women as they are introduced enable readers to appreciate their relevance and significance. For more information on this topic, please visit the author's website at www.inthewordsofwomen.com.

In the Words of Women Reviews

Through fascinating documents, deft notes, and unobtrusive editing, this collection provides a valuable addition to the literature of the American Revolution and American women's history. In the Words of Women performs the impressive feat of embedding women's experience in the political and military upheavals of the era without losing sight of the ways in which everyday life-household priorities, illness, travel, marriage, parenthood, and social amusement-did not cease for women or men living in the midst of larger events. Scholars and students will turn to this work to see the late eighteenth century with greater illumination. -- David Gellman, DePauw University
So often, women of the Revolutionary Era are ghettoized, set apart from the central narrative. Not so with In the Words of Women. In this valuable documentary resource, female experiences and perspectives are contextualized and integrated into the flow of history. Women thus become real players, and as the title suggests, we meet them on their own terms. -- Ray Raphael, author of A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence
The voices of the women of the revolutionary generation have sometimes been lost in the rush to provide analysis and narration of their roles. ...The story is too often told about the women who protested, boycotted, fought, nursed, spied, and took over the task of running farm and shop, but the voices we hear do not come from the women themselves. The challenge is to bring those voices to the written page, to make us as familiar with the cadences of the housewife and the camp follower as we are with the tempo of Patrick Henry's oratory. ...This is the challenge that the editors of In the Words of Women have met. -- Carol Berkin, from the foreword

About Louise V. North

Louise V. North is an independent scholar and co-author of Selected Letters of John Jay and Sarah Livingston Jay. Janet M. Wedge is a former high school teacher and adjunct professor at Manhattanville College, and co-author of Selected Letters of John Jay and Sarah Livingston Jay. Landa M. Freeman is visiting lecturer at numerous historical societies and university groups and co-author of Selected Letters of John Jay and Sarah Livingston Jay.

Table of Contents

1 Foreword 2 Acknowledgments 3 Editorial Guidelines 4 Timeline 5 Dramatis Personae 6 Setting the Scene Part 7 Part I. Women during the American Revolution Chapter 8 1. Advancing toward a State of Independancy Chapter 9 2. Things indeed look dark Chapter 10 3. Every one of them . . . could shoot very well Chapter 11 4. Branded by the names of rebellion and treason Chapter 12 5. The heavy Cloud that hangs over us Part 13 Part II. Women Living Their Lives Chapter 14 6. This week . . . my Family are all sick Chapter 15 7. Safely arrived at the Haven of Matrimony Chapter 16 8. in her own sphere Chapter 17 9. we set out on our journey Part 18 Part III. Women in the Emerging Nation Chapter 19 10. Willing to re-sheathe the sword Chapter 20 11. a flattering and a Glorious Reward Chapter 21 12. a favored nation 22 Notes 23 Bibliography 24 About the Authors

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NLS9780739150191
9780739150191
0739150197
In the Words of Women: The Revolutionary War and the Birth of the Nation, 1765 - 1799 by Louise V. North
New
Paperback
Lexington Books
2011-04-13
422
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