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Writing women's lives : American women's history through letters and diaries, edited by Susan Corey, Jonathan Boe, Marsha Markman

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This volume presents a collection of primary sources consisting of diaries and letters written by women themselves. The intimacy of such materials reveals attitudes, feelings, and perspectives that would seldom find expression in more public documents. Included here are entries from early colonial settlement through recent times; plantation owners and slaves; Native Americans; indentured servants; women in the military and on the home front; immigrants and westward migrants; and women on the frontier of equal rights
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xiii, 338 pages
Note
Authors names in reverse order on cover and spine
Contents
  • Woman speaks out; letter to the editor, 1730/31
  • Elizabeth Magawley
  • On managing a southern plantation, 1740
  • Eliza Lucas
  • The
  • Plight of an indentured servant, 1756
  • Elizabeth Sprigs
  • A
  • Plea for equal rights for negroes, 1774
  • Phillis Wheatley
  • Part 1: The Colonial and Revolutionary Eras, From the Beginnings to 1789:
  • "Remember the Ladies": letters on women's rights, 1776
  • Abigail Adams
  • The
  • Revolutionary war: letters of a Loyalist wife, 1776-1777 /rCatherine Van Cortlandt
  • Petition of a slave to the Massachusetts legislature, 1782
  • Belinda
  • A
  • Midwife's diary, 1787-1798
  • The
  • Difficulty of leaving an abusive husband, 1788-1789
  • A
  • Abigail Abbot Bailey --
  • Colonial woman's journey, 1704-1705
  • Sarah Kemble Knight
  • A
  • Letter from the New World, 1711
  • Mary Stafford - -
  • A
  • On the Overland Trail, 1838
  • Sarah White Smith
  • Diary from a Georgia plantation, 1839
  • Fanny Kemble
  • Letters on women's rights and changing gender roles, 1840-1899
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Letters from the Lowell Mills and a Utopian community, 1845-1855
  • Mary Paul
  • First childbirth with ether, 1847
  • Fanny Appleton Longfellow
  • Part 2: A Growing Nation, 1789-1861:
  • Letters about birth control and abortion, 1849-1875
  • Calista Hall, William Dorsey Pender and Emily Fitzgerald
  • The
  • Struggle between family obligations and self-expression, 1850-1856
  • Ellen Birdseye Wheaton
  • On teaching school in Indiana, 1852
  • Ellen Lee
  • The
  • Language of female friendship: letters to Susan Gilbert, 1852-1854
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Letters of a New England teenager, 1800-1801
  • A
  • Women's rights advocate contemplates marriage, 1853-1855
  • Lucy Stone
  • Mormon women's letters on polygamy, 1856-1857
  • Ellen Spencer Clawson and Ellen Pratt McGary --
  • Eliza Southgate Bowne
  • New ideas about marriage, 1810-1816 /rMary and Henry Lee
  • Cherokee women's petition, 1817
  • Anonymous
  • Letters on abolitionism and women's rights, 1837
  • Sarah and Angelina Grimké
  • Mary Chestnut
  • Letters of a Civil War Nurse, 1863-1865
  • Cornelia Hancock
  • An
  • Officer's wife in Indian territory, 1867-1868
  • Elizabeth Haas Canfield
  • Diary of a journey to Arizona, 1870
  • Sister Monica
  • Letters of a Kansas homesteader, 1871-1875
  • Mary Abell --
  • Part 3: The Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877:
  • Letters from slaves, 1795-1863
  • Judith, Emily, et al.
  • The
  • diary of an African-American teacher and reformer, 1854-1862
  • Charlotte Forten
  • A
  • Sourthern aristocrat's diary during the Civil War, 1861-1865
  • Young immigrant writes home, 1884-1886
  • Wilhelmine Wiebusch
  • A
  • Reformer at the turn of the century, 1893-1913
  • Alice Hamilton
  • The
  • Campaign for woman suffrage, 1894-1914
  • Martha Farnsworth
  • The
  • School Days of an Indian girl, 1899
  • Part 4: Expansion and Industrializaion, 1877-1919:
  • Zitkala-Sa (Gertude Simmons Bonnin)
  • Letters of a labor organizer, 1901-1914
  • Mother Jones
  • A
  • Wife, mother and physician, 1904-1914
  • Mabel S. Ulrich
  • Women's responses to new technology, 1905-1916
  • Martha Farnsworth and Henrietta Szold
  • A
  • "Bintel brief": letters from Jewish American women, 1907-1910
  • Letters of a clergywoman, 1872-1893
  • Anonymous
  • Letters of a former prostitute, 1910-1911
  • Maimie Pinzer
  • Peace activist, 1915-1919
  • Alice Hamilton --
  • Juanita Breckenridge
  • Letters to Susan B. Anthony on suffrage and equal rights for women, 1880
  • Mrs. A. Beaumont, et al .--
  • Social worker in Brooklyn, 1883-1888
  • Elizabeth Fedde
  • A
  • Martha Lavell
  • Letters from an early feminist, 1932
  • M. Carey Thomas
  • Letters on the Great Depression, 1934
  • Lorena Hick
  • A
  • Dust bowl diary, 1934-1940
  • Ann Marie Low
  • Diary of a suburban housewife, 1935-1940
  • Winifred Woodley
  • Part 5: Prosperity Depression, and War, 1919-1945:
  • Letters from the homefront and the battlefront, 1941-1945
  • Catherine Lang, et al.
  • A
  • Woman in captivity, 1942-1943
  • Elizabeth Vaughan
  • Detention-camp letters, 1942-1943
  • Sonoto Iwata
  • Shipyard diary of a woman welder, 1943
  • Augusta Clawson --
  • Letters to the children's bureau: federal aid for women and children, 1918-1928
  • Anonymous
  • On knowledge, politics, and women's rights, 1921-1946
  • Mary Ritter Beard
  • Letters on birth control, 1925-1928
  • Margaret Sanger
  • Diary of a college woman, 1926-1929
  • A
  • Congressional diary, 1971
  • Bella Abzug
  • An
  • Open letter on gender and race in the South, 1972
  • Anne Braden
  • Diary from the California farm workers movement, 1973
  • Johanna Von Gottfried
  • Divorce and single motherhood, 1977-1978
  • Nan Bishop, Sarah Hamilton and Clare Bowman
  • Part 6: Modern America, 1945 to the Present:
  • Black in a white neighborhood, 1977-1978
  • Toi Derricotte
  • The
  • Elderly and the sandwich generation, 1987-1990
  • Elaine Marcus Starkman
  • Breast cancer diary, 1990
  • Marsha Carow Markman
  • An
  • Undocumented immigrant writes to her children, 1988-1990
  • Amparo Ramirez
  • Questioning the domestic ideology: letters to Betty Friedan on the Feminine Mystique, 1963
  • Anonymous
  • Letters from Vietnam, 1969
  • Sharon Lane and Lynda Van Devanter
  • A
  • Woman doctor confronts the medical system, 1970s
  • Michelle Harrison
Isbn
9781881089322
Instance
Label
Writing women's lives : American women's history through letters and diaries
Title
Writing women's lives
Title remainder
American women's history through letters and diaries
Statement of responsibility
edited by Susan Corey, Jonathan Boe, Marsha Markman
Contributor
Editor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
This volume presents a collection of primary sources consisting of diaries and letters written by women themselves. The intimacy of such materials reveals attitudes, feelings, and perspectives that would seldom find expression in more public documents. Included here are entries from early colonial settlement through recent times; plantation owners and slaves; Native Americans; indentured servants; women in the military and on the home front; immigrants and westward migrants; and women on the frontier of equal rights
Biography type
collective biography
Cataloging source
MIA
Dewey number
810.99287
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
LC call number
HQ1412
LC item number
.W751 1999
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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  • Corey, Susan
  • Boe, Jonathan
  • Markman, Marsha
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  • Women
  • Women
  • Women
  • Women
  • United States
Label
Writing women's lives : American women's history through letters and diaries, edited by Susan Corey, Jonathan Boe, Marsha Markman
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Note
Authors names in reverse order on cover and spine
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Woman speaks out; letter to the editor, 1730/31
  • Elizabeth Magawley
  • On managing a southern plantation, 1740
  • Eliza Lucas
  • The
  • Plight of an indentured servant, 1756
  • Elizabeth Sprigs
  • A
  • Plea for equal rights for negroes, 1774
  • Phillis Wheatley
  • Part 1: The Colonial and Revolutionary Eras, From the Beginnings to 1789:
  • "Remember the Ladies": letters on women's rights, 1776
  • Abigail Adams
  • The
  • Revolutionary war: letters of a Loyalist wife, 1776-1777 /rCatherine Van Cortlandt
  • Petition of a slave to the Massachusetts legislature, 1782
  • Belinda
  • A
  • Midwife's diary, 1787-1798
  • The
  • Difficulty of leaving an abusive husband, 1788-1789
  • A
  • Abigail Abbot Bailey --
  • Colonial woman's journey, 1704-1705
  • Sarah Kemble Knight
  • A
  • Letter from the New World, 1711
  • Mary Stafford - -
  • A
  • On the Overland Trail, 1838
  • Sarah White Smith
  • Diary from a Georgia plantation, 1839
  • Fanny Kemble
  • Letters on women's rights and changing gender roles, 1840-1899
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Letters from the Lowell Mills and a Utopian community, 1845-1855
  • Mary Paul
  • First childbirth with ether, 1847
  • Fanny Appleton Longfellow
  • Part 2: A Growing Nation, 1789-1861:
  • Letters about birth control and abortion, 1849-1875
  • Calista Hall, William Dorsey Pender and Emily Fitzgerald
  • The
  • Struggle between family obligations and self-expression, 1850-1856
  • Ellen Birdseye Wheaton
  • On teaching school in Indiana, 1852
  • Ellen Lee
  • The
  • Language of female friendship: letters to Susan Gilbert, 1852-1854
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Letters of a New England teenager, 1800-1801
  • A
  • Women's rights advocate contemplates marriage, 1853-1855
  • Lucy Stone
  • Mormon women's letters on polygamy, 1856-1857
  • Ellen Spencer Clawson and Ellen Pratt McGary --
  • Eliza Southgate Bowne
  • New ideas about marriage, 1810-1816 /rMary and Henry Lee
  • Cherokee women's petition, 1817
  • Anonymous
  • Letters on abolitionism and women's rights, 1837
  • Sarah and Angelina Grimké
  • Mary Chestnut
  • Letters of a Civil War Nurse, 1863-1865
  • Cornelia Hancock
  • An
  • Officer's wife in Indian territory, 1867-1868
  • Elizabeth Haas Canfield
  • Diary of a journey to Arizona, 1870
  • Sister Monica
  • Letters of a Kansas homesteader, 1871-1875
  • Mary Abell --
  • Part 3: The Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877:
  • Letters from slaves, 1795-1863
  • Judith, Emily, et al.
  • The
  • diary of an African-American teacher and reformer, 1854-1862
  • Charlotte Forten
  • A
  • Sourthern aristocrat's diary during the Civil War, 1861-1865
  • Young immigrant writes home, 1884-1886
  • Wilhelmine Wiebusch
  • A
  • Reformer at the turn of the century, 1893-1913
  • Alice Hamilton
  • The
  • Campaign for woman suffrage, 1894-1914
  • Martha Farnsworth
  • The
  • School Days of an Indian girl, 1899
  • Part 4: Expansion and Industrializaion, 1877-1919:
  • Zitkala-Sa (Gertude Simmons Bonnin)
  • Letters of a labor organizer, 1901-1914
  • Mother Jones
  • A
  • Wife, mother and physician, 1904-1914
  • Mabel S. Ulrich
  • Women's responses to new technology, 1905-1916
  • Martha Farnsworth and Henrietta Szold
  • A
  • "Bintel brief": letters from Jewish American women, 1907-1910
  • Letters of a clergywoman, 1872-1893
  • Anonymous
  • Letters of a former prostitute, 1910-1911
  • Maimie Pinzer
  • Peace activist, 1915-1919
  • Alice Hamilton --
  • Juanita Breckenridge
  • Letters to Susan B. Anthony on suffrage and equal rights for women, 1880
  • Mrs. A. Beaumont, et al .--
  • Social worker in Brooklyn, 1883-1888
  • Elizabeth Fedde
  • A
  • Martha Lavell
  • Letters from an early feminist, 1932
  • M. Carey Thomas
  • Letters on the Great Depression, 1934
  • Lorena Hick
  • A
  • Dust bowl diary, 1934-1940
  • Ann Marie Low
  • Diary of a suburban housewife, 1935-1940
  • Winifred Woodley
  • Part 5: Prosperity Depression, and War, 1919-1945:
  • Letters from the homefront and the battlefront, 1941-1945
  • Catherine Lang, et al.
  • A
  • Woman in captivity, 1942-1943
  • Elizabeth Vaughan
  • Detention-camp letters, 1942-1943
  • Sonoto Iwata
  • Shipyard diary of a woman welder, 1943
  • Augusta Clawson --
  • Letters to the children's bureau: federal aid for women and children, 1918-1928
  • Anonymous
  • On knowledge, politics, and women's rights, 1921-1946
  • Mary Ritter Beard
  • Letters on birth control, 1925-1928
  • Margaret Sanger
  • Diary of a college woman, 1926-1929
  • A
  • Congressional diary, 1971
  • Bella Abzug
  • An
  • Open letter on gender and race in the South, 1972
  • Anne Braden
  • Diary from the California farm workers movement, 1973
  • Johanna Von Gottfried
  • Divorce and single motherhood, 1977-1978
  • Nan Bishop, Sarah Hamilton and Clare Bowman
  • Part 6: Modern America, 1945 to the Present:
  • Black in a white neighborhood, 1977-1978
  • Toi Derricotte
  • The
  • Elderly and the sandwich generation, 1987-1990
  • Elaine Marcus Starkman
  • Breast cancer diary, 1990
  • Marsha Carow Markman
  • An
  • Undocumented immigrant writes to her children, 1988-1990
  • Amparo Ramirez
  • Questioning the domestic ideology: letters to Betty Friedan on the Feminine Mystique, 1963
  • Anonymous
  • Letters from Vietnam, 1969
  • Sharon Lane and Lynda Van Devanter
  • A
  • Woman doctor confronts the medical system, 1970s
  • Michelle Harrison
Control code
ocm41978287
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
xiii, 338 pages
Isbn
9781881089322
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o41978287
  • (OCoLC)41978287
Label
Writing women's lives : American women's history through letters and diaries, edited by Susan Corey, Jonathan Boe, Marsha Markman
Publication
Copyright
Note
Authors names in reverse order on cover and spine
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Woman speaks out; letter to the editor, 1730/31
  • Elizabeth Magawley
  • On managing a southern plantation, 1740
  • Eliza Lucas
  • The
  • Plight of an indentured servant, 1756
  • Elizabeth Sprigs
  • A
  • Plea for equal rights for negroes, 1774
  • Phillis Wheatley
  • Part 1: The Colonial and Revolutionary Eras, From the Beginnings to 1789:
  • "Remember the Ladies": letters on women's rights, 1776
  • Abigail Adams
  • The
  • Revolutionary war: letters of a Loyalist wife, 1776-1777 /rCatherine Van Cortlandt
  • Petition of a slave to the Massachusetts legislature, 1782
  • Belinda
  • A
  • Midwife's diary, 1787-1798
  • The
  • Difficulty of leaving an abusive husband, 1788-1789
  • A
  • Abigail Abbot Bailey --
  • Colonial woman's journey, 1704-1705
  • Sarah Kemble Knight
  • A
  • Letter from the New World, 1711
  • Mary Stafford - -
  • A
  • On the Overland Trail, 1838
  • Sarah White Smith
  • Diary from a Georgia plantation, 1839
  • Fanny Kemble
  • Letters on women's rights and changing gender roles, 1840-1899
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Letters from the Lowell Mills and a Utopian community, 1845-1855
  • Mary Paul
  • First childbirth with ether, 1847
  • Fanny Appleton Longfellow
  • Part 2: A Growing Nation, 1789-1861:
  • Letters about birth control and abortion, 1849-1875
  • Calista Hall, William Dorsey Pender and Emily Fitzgerald
  • The
  • Struggle between family obligations and self-expression, 1850-1856
  • Ellen Birdseye Wheaton
  • On teaching school in Indiana, 1852
  • Ellen Lee
  • The
  • Language of female friendship: letters to Susan Gilbert, 1852-1854
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Letters of a New England teenager, 1800-1801
  • A
  • Women's rights advocate contemplates marriage, 1853-1855
  • Lucy Stone
  • Mormon women's letters on polygamy, 1856-1857
  • Ellen Spencer Clawson and Ellen Pratt McGary --
  • Eliza Southgate Bowne
  • New ideas about marriage, 1810-1816 /rMary and Henry Lee
  • Cherokee women's petition, 1817
  • Anonymous
  • Letters on abolitionism and women's rights, 1837
  • Sarah and Angelina Grimké
  • Mary Chestnut
  • Letters of a Civil War Nurse, 1863-1865
  • Cornelia Hancock
  • An
  • Officer's wife in Indian territory, 1867-1868
  • Elizabeth Haas Canfield
  • Diary of a journey to Arizona, 1870
  • Sister Monica
  • Letters of a Kansas homesteader, 1871-1875
  • Mary Abell --
  • Part 3: The Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877:
  • Letters from slaves, 1795-1863
  • Judith, Emily, et al.
  • The
  • diary of an African-American teacher and reformer, 1854-1862
  • Charlotte Forten
  • A
  • Sourthern aristocrat's diary during the Civil War, 1861-1865
  • Young immigrant writes home, 1884-1886
  • Wilhelmine Wiebusch
  • A
  • Reformer at the turn of the century, 1893-1913
  • Alice Hamilton
  • The
  • Campaign for woman suffrage, 1894-1914
  • Martha Farnsworth
  • The
  • School Days of an Indian girl, 1899
  • Part 4: Expansion and Industrializaion, 1877-1919:
  • Zitkala-Sa (Gertude Simmons Bonnin)
  • Letters of a labor organizer, 1901-1914
  • Mother Jones
  • A
  • Wife, mother and physician, 1904-1914
  • Mabel S. Ulrich
  • Women's responses to new technology, 1905-1916
  • Martha Farnsworth and Henrietta Szold
  • A
  • "Bintel brief": letters from Jewish American women, 1907-1910
  • Letters of a clergywoman, 1872-1893
  • Anonymous
  • Letters of a former prostitute, 1910-1911
  • Maimie Pinzer
  • Peace activist, 1915-1919
  • Alice Hamilton --
  • Juanita Breckenridge
  • Letters to Susan B. Anthony on suffrage and equal rights for women, 1880
  • Mrs. A. Beaumont, et al .--
  • Social worker in Brooklyn, 1883-1888
  • Elizabeth Fedde
  • A
  • Martha Lavell
  • Letters from an early feminist, 1932
  • M. Carey Thomas
  • Letters on the Great Depression, 1934
  • Lorena Hick
  • A
  • Dust bowl diary, 1934-1940
  • Ann Marie Low
  • Diary of a suburban housewife, 1935-1940
  • Winifred Woodley
  • Part 5: Prosperity Depression, and War, 1919-1945:
  • Letters from the homefront and the battlefront, 1941-1945
  • Catherine Lang, et al.
  • A
  • Woman in captivity, 1942-1943
  • Elizabeth Vaughan
  • Detention-camp letters, 1942-1943
  • Sonoto Iwata
  • Shipyard diary of a woman welder, 1943
  • Augusta Clawson --
  • Letters to the children's bureau: federal aid for women and children, 1918-1928
  • Anonymous
  • On knowledge, politics, and women's rights, 1921-1946
  • Mary Ritter Beard
  • Letters on birth control, 1925-1928
  • Margaret Sanger
  • Diary of a college woman, 1926-1929
  • A
  • Congressional diary, 1971
  • Bella Abzug
  • An
  • Open letter on gender and race in the South, 1972
  • Anne Braden
  • Diary from the California farm workers movement, 1973
  • Johanna Von Gottfried
  • Divorce and single motherhood, 1977-1978
  • Nan Bishop, Sarah Hamilton and Clare Bowman
  • Part 6: Modern America, 1945 to the Present:
  • Black in a white neighborhood, 1977-1978
  • Toi Derricotte
  • The
  • Elderly and the sandwich generation, 1987-1990
  • Elaine Marcus Starkman
  • Breast cancer diary, 1990
  • Marsha Carow Markman
  • An
  • Undocumented immigrant writes to her children, 1988-1990
  • Amparo Ramirez
  • Questioning the domestic ideology: letters to Betty Friedan on the Feminine Mystique, 1963
  • Anonymous
  • Letters from Vietnam, 1969
  • Sharon Lane and Lynda Van Devanter
  • A
  • Woman doctor confronts the medical system, 1970s
  • Michelle Harrison
Control code
ocm41978287
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
xiii, 338 pages
Isbn
9781881089322
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o41978287
  • (OCoLC)41978287

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