Rebecca Dickinson Independence for a New England Woman

Name: Rebecca Dickinson Independence for a New England Woman
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ISBN: 9780813347653

ISBN-10: 0813347653

ISBN-13: 9780813347653

Edition: 2014

Authors: Marla Miller

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Rebecca Dickinson’s powerful voice, captured through excerpts from the pages of her journal, allows life in colonial and revolutionary-era New England to come alive. Dickinson’s life illustrates the dilemmas faced by many Americans in the decades before, during, and after the American Revolution, as well as the paradoxes presented by an unmarried woman who earned her own living and made her own way in the small town where she was born.Rebecca Dickinson: Independence for a New England Woman, uses Dickinson’s life as a lens to introduce readers to the everyday experience of living in the colonial era and the social, cultural, and economic challenges faced in the transformative decades…

Book details

List price: $45.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/6/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.73" wide x 8.00" long x 0.48" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Series Editor's Foreword


Author's Preface: Reading an Eighteenth-Century Diary


Introduction: The Independence of Rebecca Dickinson



Origins and Awakenings



Entering the Female Economy



A World at War, a Soul at Peace



The Unraveling



Revolutionary Hatfield



Rebellion, Redux



Reproducing the Nation



Singlehood and the "Bar in the Way"



The "Most Dark and Puzzling Affair"



Twilight


Conclusion: Remembering Independence


Primary Sources


Study Questions


Notes


Bibliographic Essay


Index