Gentlewomen and Learned Ladies: Women and Elite Formation in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia (Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World)

Sarah Fatherly

$139.10

Publication Date: September 1st, 2008

Publisher:

Lehigh University Press

ISBN:

9781611460476

Pages:

244

Description

This study explores womenOs central involvement in the creation of an elite class in colonial Philadelphia. It shows how major mercantile families adopted an English model of class identity and adapted it to the realities of colonial life in the mid-Atlantic region.

About the Author

Sarah Fatherly is associate professor of history and chair of the Integrative Studies Program at Otterbein University.

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