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]
National publications containing short stories by Mary Brecht Pulver: and her biography, including a collectionof her verse and a listing of her stories
Other materials concerning Mary B. Pulver are found in Archives: MG 284 - Mary Brecht Pulver Papers.
Contents
Portrait, biography, poems, and list of stories in magazine form - "Ella Mae's golliwog" in The Saturday Evening Post, April 11,1925, p. 30-31, 130, 134, 138 -- "The Inept love" in The Saturday Evening Post, December 6,1917, p. 13-15, 81-82, 85 -- "The pomegranate coat" in The Saturday Evening Post, January 13,1917, p. 16-18, 65-66, 69 -- "History in the Making" in the Saturday Evening Post, May 5, 1923, p. 42, 44, 61-62, 65-66, 69-70
National publications containing short stories "Pennsylvania Dutch Series" by Mary Brecht Pulver : and her biography, including a collection of her verse and a listing of her stories
Other materials concerning Mary B. Pulver are found in Archives: MG 284 - Mary Brecht Pulver Papers.
Contents
Portrait, biography, poems, and list of stories in magazine form --- "Minnie Good of Manheim" in The Saturday Evening Post, July 24, 1915, p. 16-17, 36-37 -- "His day of days" in The Saturday Evening Post, October 9, 1915, p. 26-30 -- "The Vampire" in The Saturday Evening Post, November 18, 1916, p. 16-17, 54, 56, 58 -- "Cass the Red-Cheeked, what became of the Gypsy's prophecy about her" in The Ladies' Home Journal, June 1916, p. 23, 73-75.
Overall subject: Contemplation with subdivisions Caprice, Communion with the Self, Disillusionment, Death, The Seasons: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn.
