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 Women in Portraits Religion Biography Clothing/Fashion/Costumes Holidays US History 1700s American Art Families in Portraits Primary Source US Art Portrait Christmas Society American Revolution Women's Roles Women in Business Women Across the Globe Slavery/African Americans/ Free Blacks Mothers & Children in Portraits
Eleanor Magruder Briscoe (1766-1806) by John Drinker (1760-1826) 18
3 January 2023
Eleanor Magruder Briscoe by John Drinker, in Jefferson County West Virginia 1800-02 When Eleanor Magruder Briscoe was born on January 6, 1766, in Maryland, her father, Alexander,...
1716 Frances L’Escott (1705-1747) by Henrietta Johnston(c 1674-1729)
1 January 2023
1716 Frances L’Escott (1705-1747) by Henrietta Johnston(c 1674-1729)MESDA tells us that Frances L’Escott (1705-1747) was the daughter of the Reverend Paul L’Escott (b.1675), pastor...
George & Martha Washington's Laundry Wash House at Mount Vernon in 18C Virginia
10 June 2022
Woman with Bag of Laundry The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University George & Martha Washington's Wash House at Mount Vernon in Virginia Compiled by Sydney Marenburg In the...
Henry Benbridge 1743-1812 paints 18C Women
14 November 2021
Henry Benbridge (1743-1812). Margaret Cantey (Mrs. John Peyre).Henry Benbridge (1744–1812), early American portrait painter, was born in Philadelphia, the only child of James &...