Not All Wives : : Women of Colonial Philadelphia / / Karin A. Wulf.
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 W...
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Wulf, Karin A., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Not All Wives : Women of Colonial Philadelphia / Karin A. Wulf. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019] ©2000 1 online resource (240 p.) : 2 maps, 5 halftones, 7 tables text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Early American & Colonial History. U.S. History. Womens Studies. HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775). bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801437021 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501745355 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501745355 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501745355/original |
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