Women of the House How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty

Name: Women of the House How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty
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ISBN: 9780151010653

ISBN-10: 015101065X

ISBN-13: 9780151010653

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jean Zimmerman

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The remarkable Margaret Hardenbroeck Philipse arrived in New Amsterdam from Holland in 1659, a brash and ambitious twenty-two-year-old bent on making her way in the New World. She promptly built an empire of trading ships, furs, and real estate that included all of Westchester County. The Dutch called such women "she-merchants," and Margaret became the wealthiest in the colony, while raising five children and keeping a spotless linen closet. Zimmerman deftly traces the astonishing rise of Margaret and the Philipse women who followed her, who would transform Margaret's storehouse on the banks of the Hudson into a veritable mansion, Philipse Manor Hall. The last Philipse to live there, Mary…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 8/1/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.32" wide x 9.36" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English

Jean Zimmerman is the author of four previous books, including The Women of the House: How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune and a Dynasty. She earned an MFA in writing from the Columbia University School of the Arts and has published her poetry widely in literary magazines. She lives with her family in Westchester County, New York.



Prologue: 1685



1659-1691: Margaret



Her New World



A Map of Manhattan



Wild Diamonds



A Wedding, a Child, and a Funeral on the Ditch



Education of a She-Merchant



A Marriage of Love and Trade



The Superior Authority Over Both Ship and Cargo



The House Margaret Built



A Surfeit of Sugar



1692-1783: Catherine, Joanna, Mary



The Church of Catherine



Not Doubting of Her Care



Fashion Babies



A Hard Winter and Hell



A Castle on the Heights



Fire in the Sky


Afterword


Acknowledgments


Notes


Sources


Index