The diary of Elizabeth Drinker : the life cycle of an eighteenth-century woman / edited, with a new preface, by Elaine Forman Crane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Drinker, Elizabeth Sandwith, 1734-1807.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drinker, Elizabeth Sandwith, 1734-1807--Diaries.

Drinker, Elizabeth Sandwith.

Women--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Diaries.

Women.

Quakers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Diaries.

Quakers.

Women--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Social life and customs--18th century.

Quakers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Social life and customs--18th century.

Childbirth--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--18th century.

Childbirth.

Vaccination--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--18th century.

Vaccination.

Medicine--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--18th century.

Medicine.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs--18th century.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 p.)

Edition:

Abridged ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The journal of Philadelphia Quaker Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker (1735-1807) is perhaps the single most significant personal record of eighteenth-century life in America from a woman's perspective. Drinker wrote in her diary nearly continuously between 1758 and 1807, from two years before her marriage to the night before her last illness. The extraordinary span and sustained quality of the journal make it a rewarding document for a multitude of historical purposes. One of the most prolific early American diarists-her journal runs to thirty-six manuscript volumes-Elizabeth Drinker saw English colonies evolve into the American nation while Drinker herself changed from a young unmarried woman into a wife, mother, and grandmother. Her journal entries touch on every contemporary subject political, personal, and familial.Focusing on different stages of Drinker's personal development within the domestic context, this abridged edition highlights four critical phases of her life cycle: youth and courtship, wife and mother, middle age in years of crisis, and grandmother and family elder. There is little that escaped Elizabeth Drinker's quill, and her diary is a delight not only for the information it contains but also for the way in which she conveys her world across the centuries.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface: A Woman for All Seasons

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Editorial Note

List of Abbreviations and Short Titles

Family Tree

1. Youth and Courtship, 1758-1761

2. Wife and Mother, 1762-1775

3. Middle Age in Years of Crisis, 1776-1793

4. Grandmother and Grand Mother, 1794-1807

Biographical Directory

Index of Names

Subject Index

Notes:

"First published 1994 by Northeastern University Press"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780812206821

0812206827

9781283899178

1283899175

OCLC:

794700724