Gentlewomen and Learned Ladies: Women and Elite Formation in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia

by Sarah Fatherly

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611460476
• ISBN13: 9781611460476
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Lehigh University Press
• Length: 244 Pages