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Author Drinker, Elizabeth Sandwith, 1734-1807.

Title The diary of Elizabeth Drinker : the life cycle of an eighteenth-century woman / edited, with a new preface, by Elaine Forman Crane
Edition Abridged ed
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xl, 366 pages) : illustrations
Contents Family tree -- Youth and courtship, 1758-1761 -- Wife and mother, 1762-1775 -- Middle age in years of crisis, 1776-1793 -- Grandmother and grand mother, 1794-1807 -- Biographical directory
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
Analysis "First published 1994 by Northeastern University Press"--T.p. verso
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"First published 1994 by Northeastern University Press"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Drinker, Elizabeth Sandwith, 1734-1807 -- Diaries
SUBJECT Drinker, Elizabeth Sandwith, 1734-1807 -- Diaries
Drinker, Elizabeth Sandwith, 1734-1807 fast
Subject Medicine -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 18th century
Vaccination -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 18th century
Childbirth -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 18th century
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social life and customs -- 18th century
Women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social life and customs -- 18th century
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Diaries
Women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Diaries
HISTORY -- United States -- Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Childbirth
Manners and customs
Medicine
Quakers
Quakers -- Social life and customs
Vaccination
Women
Women -- Social life and customs
SUBJECT Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Biography
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs -- 18th century
Subject Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Genre/Form Biographies
Diaries
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812206821
0812206827