Memory's Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America

by Susan M. Stabile

A renowned literary coterie in eighteenth-century Philadelphia--Elizabeth Fergusson, Hannah Griffitts, Deborah Logan, Annis Stockton, and Susanna Wright--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. In this stunningly original and heavily illustrated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801440319
• ISBN13: 9780801440311
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher