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Elizabeth Murray : a woman's pursuit of independence in eighteenth-century America / Patricia Cleary.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cleary, Patricia, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Murray, Elizabeth, 1726-1785.
- Murray, Elizabeth.
- History.
- Businesswomen.
- Women.
- Boston (Mass.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
- Boston (Mass.).
- Women--Massachusetts--Boston--Biography.
- Businesswomen--Massachusetts--Boston--Biography.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Women.
- United States.
- Massachusetts--Boston.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts, [2000]
- Contents:
- Introduction: An Extraordinary Ordinary Woman 1
- 1 Migration and Mobility 13
- 2 A "She Merchant" in Boston 45
- 3 The Bonds of Marriage and Benevolence 82
- 4 Leisure and Industry in Britain and America 118
- 5 Conflicting Loyalties and Fighting the Revolution 167
- 6 The Legacy of a "Spirit of Independence" 208.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-274) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1558492631
- OCLC:
- 43953922
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