Women's early American historical narratives / edited with an introduction and notes by Sharon M. Harris.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harris, Sharon M.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Penguin classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women historians--United States.

Women historians.

United States--Historiography.

United States.

Historiography.

Physical Description:

xxx, 331 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin, 2003.

Summary:

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, many women began to write historical analysis, taking on an essential role in defining the new American Republicanism. Like their male counterparts, these authors worried over the meaning and practice of public and private virtue, human equality, and the principles of rationalism. But they also inevitably addressed the issue of the inequality of the sexes. The writings in this collection employ a range of approaches: reportage, poetical narratives, travel writing, drama, and accounts designed to promote critical thinking -- training women rarely received through traditional education.

Contents:

"The History of Maria Kittle" (1790-1791) / Ann Eliza Bleecker 1

"The Hudson" (1793), "On seeing a Print ..." (1792), "July the Fourteenth" (1793) / Margaretta V. Bleecker Faugeres 36

"Observations on Female Abilities" (1798) / Judith Sargent Murray 56

A Summary History of New-England (1799) / Hannah Adams 93

History ... of the American Revolution (1805) / Mercy Otis Warren 111

The Female Enthusiast: A Tragedy in Five Acts (1807) / Sarah Pogson 156

Sketches of Universal History (1811) / Sarah Pierce 213

Observations on the Real Rights of Women (1818) / Hannah Mather Crocker 229

Sketches of History, Life, and Manners, in the United States (1826) / Anne Newport Royall 250

History of the United States, or Republic of America (1828; 2nd rev. ed.) / Emma Willard 277.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0142437107

OCLC:

52455968