This book studies the writings of Elizabeth Fergusson, Hannah Griffitts, Deborah Logan, Annis Stockton, and Susanna Wright.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-276) and index.
Summary
"They wrote and exchanged thousands of poems and maintained elaborate handwritten commonplace books of memorabilia. Through their creativity and celebrated hospitality , they initiated a salon culture in their great country houses in the Delaware Valley .... Susan Sabile shows that these female writers sought to memorialize their lives and aesthetic experience - a purpose that stands in marked contrast to the civic concerns of male authors in the republican era." [from the dust cover]
vii, 131 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
Series
Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society ; series 2, volume 49
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-126) and index.
Contents
Oley Valley, breadbasket of colonial Philadelphia -- Jefferson's 1803 Republic and the farming gentry -- Conestoga wagon commerce -- Ore mines, iron furnaces, and flour mills -- Domestic material culture of the Oley Valley -- Water-powered sawmills, gristmills, and bridges -- Antebellum aristocracy and architecture -- Nineteenth century Oley Valley through rare Fegley and Moyer photographs -- Religious diversification and church settlements.
