Barbara
This blog will focus on how the lives of women living along the American Atlantic coast changed over the 18th century. The blog will use first-hand accounts whenever possible; so that the reader can compare & contrast those changes over time. ...
Images & essays cluster around some chronological, social, cultural, or academic theme. I try to choose images that justify their inclusion on aesthetic grounds.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
18C Clothing/Fashion/Costumes 1700s American Art Women Across the Globe Portrait Primary Source Women in Business Women's Roles 1700s Biography American Revolution Society Print Revolution Rising 1700s American Women Their Own Words Laws British Parliament In Their Own Words Slavery
18C Delicate Women in the Almshouse
10 March 2018
A Woman Shopkeeper of the 1790s, by an Unknown Artist.A 1751 petition to Philadelphia's Overseers of the Poor conveyed the request of Mary Marrot and her daughter for more refined...
18C Women in Business - Commerce & Character
6 March 2018
A Woman Shopkeeper of the 1790s, by an Unknown Artist.Earlier in the century, trade was often characterized in moral rather than political terms. Benjamin Franklin's fabricated...
18C Women in Business in Nantucket
2 March 2018
A Woman Shopkeeper of the 1790s, by an Unknown Artist.Descnbing the customs of eighteenth-century Nantucket, Hector St John de Crevecoeur praised the industnousness of the wives of...
18C Women in Business - Train in Accounting & Business
26 February 2018
A Woman Shopkeeper of the 1790s, by an Unknown Artist.Author Daniel Defoe 1660-1731 argued for the necessity of women being trained in accounting and business skills, such training...