The diary of Hannah Callender Sansom : sense and sensibility in the age of the American Revolution
2010
920.72 S233kl 2010
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Title
The diary of Hannah Callender Sansom : sense and sensibility in the age of the American Revolution
Published
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.
Description
xii, 358 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
920.72 S233kl 2010
System Control No.
(OCoLC)319601768
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Talk, travel, and a couple of murders : Hannah Callender's sociable, venturesome life -- The diary : January 1758-August 1761 -- "A new scene of life" : men, women, and familial authority -- The diary : March 1762-November 1772 -- Interlude : Hannah Callender Sansom and a revolutionary world -- "This man seems formed for domestic happiness" : the marriage of Sally and Elliston -- The diary : November 1784-October 1788.
L2010M175
Sansom witnessed the effects of the tumultuous eighteenth century: political struggles, war and peace, and economic development. She experienced the pull of traditional emphases on duty, subjection, and hierarchy and the emergence of radical new ideas promoting free choice, liberty, and independence. Regarding these changes from her position as a well-educated member of the colonial Quaker elite and as a resident of Philadelphia, the principal city in North America, this assertive, outspoken woman described her life and her society in a diary kept intermittently from the time she was twenty-one years old in 1758 through the birth of her first grandchild in 1788 ... The diary is one of the earliest, fullest documents written by an American woman, and it provides fresh insights into women's experience in early America, the urban milieu of the emerging middle classes, and the culture that shaped both--From publisher description.
Contents: Talk, travel, and a couple of murders : Hannah Callender's sociable, venturesome life -- The diary : January 1758-August 1761 -- "A new scene of life" : men, women, and familial authority -- The diary : March 1762-November 1772 -- Interlude : Hannah Callender Sansom and a revolutionary world -- "This man seems formed for domestic happiness" : the marriage of Sally and Elliston -- The diary : November 1784-October 1788.
L2010M175
Sansom witnessed the effects of the tumultuous eighteenth century: political struggles, war and peace, and economic development. She experienced the pull of traditional emphases on duty, subjection, and hierarchy and the emergence of radical new ideas promoting free choice, liberty, and independence. Regarding these changes from her position as a well-educated member of the colonial Quaker elite and as a resident of Philadelphia, the principal city in North America, this assertive, outspoken woman described her life and her society in a diary kept intermittently from the time she was twenty-one years old in 1758 through the birth of her first grandchild in 1788 ... The diary is one of the earliest, fullest documents written by an American woman, and it provides fresh insights into women's experience in early America, the urban milieu of the emerging middle classes, and the culture that shaped both--From publisher description.
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