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Author_Marla Miller
Bed Hangings
Britain's North American Colonies
Britain’s North American Colonies
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colonial women's history
colonies
Congregational Church
Continental Army
county
diary
dickinsons
eighteenth-century gender roles
Elizabeth Porter
englands
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female economic independence
George III
Great Awakening
hampshire
King George III
King Philip's War
King Philip’s War
Larger Family
Marla R. Miller
Married Women
massachusetts
Massachusetts Spy
north
North American Mainland
Phelps Family
primary source analysis
Republican Motherhood
revolutionary era society
Samuel's Son
Samuel’s Son
Shays's Rebellion
Shays’s Rebellion
social change in early America
Spiritual Shortcomings
Stubborn Heart
Town Send
Townshend Act
Townshend Duties
western
Western Massachusetts
women's lived experience in colonial New England
Yale College
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780367097752
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Rebecca Dickinson's powerful voice, captured through excerpts from the pages of her journal, allows 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 world 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 surrounding the American Revolution.About the Lives of American Women series: selected and edited by renowned women's historian Carol Berkin, these brief biographies are designed for use in undergraduate courses. Rather than a comprehensive approach, each biography focuses instead on a particular aspect of a women's life that is emblematic of her time, or which made her a pivotal figure in the era. The emphasis is on a 'good read', featuring accessible writing and compelling narratives, without sacrificing sound scholarship and academic integrity. Primary sources at the end of each biography reveal the subject's perspective in her own words. Study questions and an annotated bibliography support the student reader.
Marla Miller
