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Focusing on different stages of Drinker's personal development within the domestic context, this abridged edition highlights four critical phases of her life cycle: youth and courtship, wife and mother, middle age in years of crisis, and grandmother and family elder.

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"[Drinker's] diary, which spans the years 1758 to 1807, is the most substantial woman's diary that survives from eighteenth-century America; and it ranks with the diaries of Samuel Sewall, William Byrd, Landon Carter, John Adams, and William Bentley in its richness as a source for understanding the social and cultural history of the period it covers." * American Historical Review *

Table of Contents

Preface: A Woman for All Seasons
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Editorial Note
List of Short Titles and Abbreviations
Family Tree
1. Youth and Courtship, 1758-1761
2. Wife and Mother, 1762-1775
3. Middle Age in Years of Crisis, 1776-1793
4. Grandmother and Grand Mother, 1794-1807
Biographical Directory
Index of Names
Subject Index

The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker

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      Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
      Publication Date: 03/02/2010
      ISBN13: 9780812220773, 978-0812220773
      ISBN10: 0812220773
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      Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Focusing on different stages of Drinker's personal development within the domestic context, this abridged edition highlights four critical phases of her life cycle: youth and courtship, wife and mother, middle age in years of crisis, and grandmother and family elder.

      Trade Review
      "[Drinker's] diary, which spans the years 1758 to 1807, is the most substantial woman's diary that survives from eighteenth-century America; and it ranks with the diaries of Samuel Sewall, William Byrd, Landon Carter, John Adams, and William Bentley in its richness as a source for understanding the social and cultural history of the period it covers." * American Historical Review *

      Table of Contents

      Preface: A Woman for All Seasons
      Acknowledgments
      Introduction
      Editorial Note
      List of Short Titles and Abbreviations
      Family Tree
      1. Youth and Courtship, 1758-1761
      2. Wife and Mother, 1762-1775
      3. Middle Age in Years of Crisis, 1776-1793
      4. Grandmother and Grand Mother, 1794-1807
      Biographical Directory
      Index of Names
      Subject Index

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