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Elaine Forman Crane is Professor of History at Fordham University. She is the author of several books, including Killed Strangely: The Death of Rebecca Cornell, also from Cornell.

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I really wanted to like this book - but the main part of the book seemed to get wrapped up pretty quickly, The rest might be interesting to a history buff, but I was really there for Mary's story. That part is delivered well, and while the story is well written, I think it's geared towards someone who is more interested in history than I am.
 
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LilyRoseShadowlyn | 1 anden anmeldelse | Jan 10, 2021 |
It was deeply moving and always fascinating to learn about the day to day life of Elizabeth Drinker in the late 18th and early 19th Century, in Philadelphia. I found the medical cures particularly interesting, if not horrifying and tragic. Other details just stick with you... like the mention of a ghost haunting an "old" house, a peculiar spider (does that species still exist today?), early ice cream parlors, and the foods that were eaten.
 
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ChrisConway | 1 anden anmeldelse | Dec 16, 2011 |
How does one rate a diary? This is a fascinating journal by Elizabeth Sandwich Drinker, a Philadelphia Quaker and an educated woman, wife, mother and grandmother who chronicled not only the milestones in so many people's lives, but her personal thoughts about the ordinary and the extraordinary things that happen to her. She even chronicles her reading! Fans of 18th century American social history will find this volume irresistible.
 
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avaland | 1 anden anmeldelse | Apr 4, 2009 |
Note: I received a digital review copy from the publisher through NetGalley.
 
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