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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... inscribed by women, public and private library catalogs, sales ledgers, surviving subscription library borrowing records, literary references, and contemporary biographical sketches of notable colonial women. Many of the sources of ...
... inscribed by women, public and private library catalogs, sales ledgers, surviving subscription library borrowing records, literary references, and contemporary biographical sketches of notable colonial women. Many of the sources of ...
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... inscribed copies of books printed in London survive in American libraries today, in most cases no evidence survives to identify their owners or to show that they lived in colonial America. Most surviving volumes inscribed by women are ...
... inscribed copies of books printed in London survive in American libraries today, in most cases no evidence survives to identify their owners or to show that they lived in colonial America. Most surviving volumes inscribed by women are ...
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... inscribed these books remain unclear. Women who owned books but were not members of prominent families sometimes are impossible to identify. Often, a woman's autograph in a surviving book remains her only written legacy. More detailed ...
... inscribed these books remain unclear. Women who owned books but were not members of prominent families sometimes are impossible to identify. Often, a woman's autograph in a surviving book remains her only written legacy. More detailed ...
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... inscribed “Joseph Walker his Book 1726/7” and “Sarah Walker her Book 1726/7.” The joint autographs, obviously inscribed at the same time, suggest that their marriage was an equal venture. The work itself was a kind of home and garden ...
... inscribed “Joseph Walker his Book 1726/7” and “Sarah Walker her Book 1726/7.” The joint autographs, obviously inscribed at the same time, suggest that their marriage was an equal venture. The work itself was a kind of home and garden ...
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... inscribed “Eliza Baldwin, hur book.” After the 1642 mandate requiring all New England children to learn the catechism, many were printed and imported. Dozens of Nathaniel Vincent's Little Child's Catechism were sent to Boston during the ...
... inscribed “Eliza Baldwin, hur book.” After the 1642 mandate requiring all New England children to learn the catechism, many were printed and imported. Dozens of Nathaniel Vincent's Little Child's Catechism were sent to Boston during the ...
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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