The diary of Elizabeth Drinker : the life cycle of an eighteenth-century woman

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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 marr...

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Main Author: Drinker, Elizabeth Sandwith, 1734-1807
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010.
Edition:Abridged ed.
Subjects:
Drinker, Elizabeth Sandwith, > 1734-1807 > Diaries.
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.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Biography.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Social life and customs > 18th century.
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Table of 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.

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