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Not All Wives : Women of Colonial Philadelphia / Karin A. Wulf.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2000Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) : 2 maps, 5 halftones, 7 tablesContent type:
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  • 9780801437021
  • 9781501745355
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.48/9652/0974811 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION: "Not All Wives": The Problem of Marriage in Early America -- CHAPTER ONE. Martha Cooper's Choice: Literature and Mentality -- CHAPTER TWO. Elizabeth Norris's Reign: Religion and Self -- CHAPTER THREE. Mary Sandwith's Spouse: Family and Household -- CHAPTER FOUR. Rachel Draper's Neighborhood: Work and Community -- CHAPTER FIVE. Ann Dunlap's "Great Want": Poverty and Public Policy -- CHAPTER SIX. Lydia Hyde's Petition: Property and Political Culture -- Index
Summary: Marital status was a fundamental legal and cultural feature of women's identity in the eighteenth century. Free women who were not married could own property and make wills, contracts, and court appearances, rights that the law of coverture prevented their married sisters from enjoying. Karin Wulf explores the significance of marital status in this account of unmarried women in Philadelphia, the largest city in the British colonies.In a major act of historical reconstruction, Wulf draws upon sources ranging from tax lists, censuses, poor relief records, and wills to almanacs, newspapers, correspondence, and poetry to recreate the daily experiences of women who were never-married, widowed, divorced, or separated. With its substantial population of unmarried women, eighteenth-century Philadelphia was much like other early modern cities, but it became a distinctive proving ground for cultural debate and social experimentation involving those women. Arguing that unmarried women shaped the city as much as it shaped them, Wulf examines popular literary representations of marriage, the economic hardships faced by women, and the decisive impact of a newly masculine public culture in the late colonial period.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION: "Not All Wives": The Problem of Marriage in Early America -- CHAPTER ONE. Martha Cooper's Choice: Literature and Mentality -- CHAPTER TWO. Elizabeth Norris's Reign: Religion and Self -- CHAPTER THREE. Mary Sandwith's Spouse: Family and Household -- CHAPTER FOUR. Rachel Draper's Neighborhood: Work and Community -- CHAPTER FIVE. Ann Dunlap's "Great Want": Poverty and Public Policy -- CHAPTER SIX. Lydia Hyde's Petition: Property and Political Culture -- Index

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Marital status was a fundamental legal and cultural feature of women's identity in the eighteenth century. Free women who were not married could own property and make wills, contracts, and court appearances, rights that the law of coverture prevented their married sisters from enjoying. Karin Wulf explores the significance of marital status in this account of unmarried women in Philadelphia, the largest city in the British colonies.In a major act of historical reconstruction, Wulf draws upon sources ranging from tax lists, censuses, poor relief records, and wills to almanacs, newspapers, correspondence, and poetry to recreate the daily experiences of women who were never-married, widowed, divorced, or separated. With its substantial population of unmarried women, eighteenth-century Philadelphia was much like other early modern cities, but it became a distinctive proving ground for cultural debate and social experimentation involving those women. Arguing that unmarried women shaped the city as much as it shaped them, Wulf examines popular literary representations of marriage, the economic hardships faced by women, and the decisive impact of a newly masculine public culture in the late colonial period.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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