A Colonial Woman's BookshelfWipf and Stock Publishers, 5. feb. 2016 - 232 strani A Colonial Woman’s Bookshelf represents a significant contribution to the study of the intellectual life of women in British North America. Kevin J. Hayes studies the books these women read and the reasons why they read them. As Hayes notes, recent studies on the literary tastes of early American women have concentrated on the post-revolutionary period, when several women novelists emerged. Yet, he observes, women were reading long before they began writing and publishing novels, and, in fact, mounting evidence now suggests that literacy rates among colonial women were much higher than previously supposed. To reconstruct what might have filled a typical colonial woman’s bookshelf, Hayes has mined such sources as wills and estate inventories, surviving volumes inscribed by women, public and private library catalogs, sales ledgers, borrowing records from subscription libraries, and contemporary biographical sketches of notable colonial women. Hayes identifies several categories of reading material. These range from devotional works and conduct books to midwifery guides and cookery books, from novels and travel books to science books. In his concluding chapter, he describes the tensions that were developing near the end of the colonial period between the emerging cult of domesticity and the appetite for learning many women displayed. With its meticulous research and rich detail, A Colonial Woman’s Bookshelf makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the complexities of life in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America. |
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... place among seventeenth-century New England women in Awakening Thoughts on the Sleep of Death (Boston, 1712), one copy of which survives with the inReading Women scription, “Mary Williams her book.” Mather wrote that these 3.
... place among seventeenth-century New England women in Awakening Thoughts on the Sleep of Death (Boston, 1712), one copy of which survives with the inReading Women scription, “Mary Williams her book.” Mather wrote that these 3.
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... death in 1700. Mrs. Tatham's library quite possibly was the largest then extant in New Jersey, but it seems unlikely that she had much to do with assembling the collection. Her husband John had died just three months before her, and his ...
... death in 1700. Mrs. Tatham's library quite possibly was the largest then extant in New Jersey, but it seems unlikely that she had much to do with assembling the collection. Her husband John had died just three months before her, and his ...
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... death in 1669, Virginia Col. John Carter specifically left his wife three devotional books; in addition, Carter's will mentions that she had “her own books.” It is a poignant comment on the legal status of early American women to read ...
... death in 1669, Virginia Col. John Carter specifically left his wife three devotional books; in addition, Carter's will mentions that she had “her own books.” It is a poignant comment on the legal status of early American women to read ...
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... death in 1725, Samuel Sewall's friend Bridget Usher had an impressive, largely devotional book collection. It can be safely assumed that this was her own library—she had left her cantankerous husband Hezekiah Usher, Jr., over thirty ...
... death in 1725, Samuel Sewall's friend Bridget Usher had an impressive, largely devotional book collection. It can be safely assumed that this was her own library—she had left her cantankerous husband Hezekiah Usher, Jr., over thirty ...
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... 1775”), a work popular among Boston booksellers, according to Dr. Alexander Hamilton. Women also sold books to one another. A surviving copy of Mary Collyer's translaReading Women tion of Salomon Gessner's The Death of Abel (Boston, 8.
... 1775”), a work popular among Boston booksellers, according to Dr. Alexander Hamilton. Women also sold books to one another. A surviving copy of Mary Collyer's translaReading Women tion of Salomon Gessner's The Death of Abel (Boston, 8.
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Conduct Books | 58 |
Housewifery Physick Midwifery | 80 |
Facts and Fictions | 101 |
Science Books | 123 |
Notes | 137 |
Sources | 181 |
Index | 203 |
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Abigail Adams advertised advice almanacs American Antiquarian Society American women ARLCP Benjamin Franklin Byrd’s Catalogue catechism Colman colonial America colonial period colonial woman Company of Philadelphia Compleat Housewife conduct books cookery books copy Cotton Mather daughter death Devotional Books early American Education Edwin Wolf 2d eighteenth century Eliza Haywood Eliza Lucas Eliza Lucas Pinckney Elizabeth England Esther Edwards Facts and Fictions female readers Fordyce Fordyce's Sermons Hannah Harvard Univ History Housewifery Ibid inscribed inventory Isaac James Jane Colden John Ladies Library Lady's Calling Laurens learning letters Library Company literary London manuscript Martha Mary Mein’s Circulating Library Midwifery Notes to Pages novels Pamela Philadelphia Physick Pinckney poem poetry popular printed Quaker Reading Women recipes reprinted Samuel Sarah Science Books South Carolina South Carolina Gazette Stiverson surviving Thomas throughout the colonies tion verse Virginia Gazette virtue volumes Whole Duty William Byrd Williamsburg writing wrote York young women