Out of a wealth of documentation, and often from the words of the people themselves, Spruill's account brings these women's lives out of the shadows-opening a usable past that was not there before.
In the words of Arthur Schlesinger, Sr., it is "an important contribution to social history to which students will constantly turn."
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“From these pages emerge, in truth, a new woman, almost unknown to historians when this book was published.” (Anne Firor Scott )
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No more important work on Colonial women,
By Roger Paulding "author, The Pickled Dog Caper" (Stafford, TX United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Women's Life and Work in the Southern Colonies (Paperback)
This is a handbook for anyone studying or writing about the Colonial period. I found it absolutely indespensable in writing two novels of the period. It is also just plain fun to read if you are a devotee of history.
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"WHEN THE PLANTATION grows to strength, then it is time to plant with women as well as with men; that the plantation may spread into generations, and not be ever pieced from without." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
callimanco shoes, colonial shopkeepers, county court minutes, vestry book, plantation affairs, colonial records, reputed father, calico gown, increasing way, colonial women, many notices Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Carolina, North Carolina, Charles Town, Virginia Gazette, Maryland Gazette, Virginia Magazine, Archives of Maryland, Mary Quarterly, New York, House of Burgesses, Georgia Gazette, George Washington, Maryland Magazine, Eliza Pinckney, William Byrd, Lord Baltimore, Mount Vernon, Henry Laurens, Institutional History, Thomas Jefferson, Colonial Records of Georgia, Laws of Maryland, Narratives of Early Maryland, Northumberland County Order Book, Margaret Brent New!
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"WHEN THE PLANTATION grows to strength, then it is time to plant with women as well as with men; that the plantation may spread into generations, and not be ever pieced from without." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
callimanco shoes, colonial shopkeepers, county court minutes, vestry book, plantation affairs, colonial records, reputed father, calico gown, increasing way, colonial women, many notices Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Carolina, North Carolina, Charles Town, Virginia Gazette, Maryland Gazette, Virginia Magazine, Archives of Maryland, Mary Quarterly, New York, House of Burgesses, Georgia Gazette, George Washington, Maryland Magazine, Eliza Pinckney, William Byrd, Lord Baltimore, Mount Vernon, Henry Laurens, Institutional History, Thomas Jefferson, Colonial Records of Georgia, Laws of Maryland, Narratives of Early Maryland, Northumberland County Order Book, Margaret Brent New!
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- Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia by Kathleen M. Brown on 5 pages
- Within Her Power: Propertied Women in Colonial Virginia (New World in the Atlantic World) by Linda Sturtz on 5 pages
- Never Done: A History of American Housework by Susan Strasser on 4 pages
- Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Memory, 1880-1945 (Gender & American Culture) by Julie Des Jardins on 4 pages
- Within Her Power: Propertied Women in Colonial Virginia (New World in the Atlantic World) by Linda Sturtz on 4 pages
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