Memoirs of the Bloomsgrove family : in a series of letters to a respectable citizen of Philadelphia : containing sentiments on a mode of domestic education, suited to the present state of society, government, and manners, in the United States of America : and on the dignity and importance of the female character : interspersed with a variety of interesting anecdotes

Memoirs of the Bloomsgrove family : in a series of letters to a respectable citizen of Philadelphia : containing sentiments on a mode of domestic education, suited to the present state of society, government, and manners, in the United States of America : and on the dignity and importance of the female character : interspersed with a variety of interesting anecdotes

Domestic memoirs

Printed at Boston : By Thomas and Andrews ..., 1790.

2 v. ; 18 cm. (12mo)

L2018F4 1790 M

(OCoLC)41095544

Running title: Domestic memoirs.
Dedicated to Martha Washington.
Fiction with a social agenda & a particularly American perspective; Hitchcock writes 93 letters with anecdotes & a subplot, from the point of view of the eldest member of the Bloomsgrove family; explores the status of American education, especially for women.
Vol. 1: p. 122 misnumbered 22.
Ms. inscription on front free endpaper: M. Parsons, 1790; ownership stamp on title: Lynn Free Public Library.

Evans 22570
ESTC W020740
Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1774-1850 1214

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