Group blog
Like a trailer for the primary source material collected in the book, this blog serves as an invitation ... to eavesdrop on the lives of women writing 250 years ago ... to become acquainted with 144 little-known but amazingly articulate chroniclers ... to discover a valuable new perspective on the Revolutionary Era.
These women lived between 1765 and 1799. But once you attune your ears to their way of writing, their voices easily leapfrog across the centuries. Read just a few sentences and you'll find yourself back in time, entering their concerns, sharing their feelings. And what they have to say is always fascinating, often eye-opening, sometimes heart-rending.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
Philadelphia Washington, George Education Children Boston New York Marriage Washington, Martha Adams, Abigail Fashion Clothes Patriots Americans Abroad British soldiers Travel Jay, Sarah Livingston Jay, John Loyalists George Washington London
“The Doctor proposes to Inoculate our little Fellow”
15 April 2020
SUSAN LIVINGSTON (1748-1840) was the oldest daughter of William Livingston and Susannah French. (The couple had thirteen children.) Her father was the governor of New Jersey, a member...
“My face is finely ornamented”
13 April 2020
Childhood diseases like mumps, measles, and whooping cough were serious but commonplace during the eighteenth century. Epidemics, occurring seemingly at random, were much more alarming....
“fix an innoculating hospital in their metropolis”
10 April 2020
Continuing with posts about epidemics in America during the colonial and early national periods in the age of the coronavirus. Some parents today do not want their children to receive...
“busily employd in communicating the Infection”
8 April 2020
Another view of the smallpox epidemic in 1776. Having returned to Cambridge from Concord, HANNAH WINTHROP wrote to her friend MERCY OTIS WARREN in July after the British had evacuated...