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Indlæser... The Diary Of Elizabeth Drinker: The Life Cycle of an Eighteenth-Century Womanaf Elaine Forman Crane
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. 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. ( ) 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. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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. No library descriptions found. |
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