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Author Norton, Mary Beth.

Title Separated by their sex [electronic resource] : women in public and private in the colonial Atlantic world / Mary Beth Norton.

Imprint Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2011.

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Description xxi, 247 p. : ill., ports.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Lady Frances Berkeley and Virginia politics, 1675-1678 -- Mistress Alice Tilly and her supporters, 1649-1650 -- English women in the public realm, 1642-1653 -- Mistress Elinor James and her broadsides, 1681-1714 -- John Dunton and the invention of the feminine private -- Mistress Sarah Kemble Knight and her journal, 1704 -- Women and politics, eighteenth century style -- Lady Chatham and her correspondents, 1740s-1760s -- Consolidating the feminine private -- Conclusion : defining "women."
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Women -- United States -- History.
Women -- Great Britain -- History.
Women in public life -- United States -- History.
Women in public life -- Great Britain -- History.
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780801449499 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801460890 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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