A bold genealogy of gender in the Anglo-American public sphere from the 1640s to the 1760s.
Introduction1. Lady Frances Berkeley and Virginia Politics, 1675-1678Mistress Alice Tilly and Her Supporters, 1649-16502. English Women in the Public Realm, 1642-1653Mistress Elinor James and Her Broadsides, 1681-17143. John Dunton and the Invention of the Feminine PrivateMistress Sarah Kemble Knight and Her Journal, 17044. Women and Politics, Eighteenth Century-StyleLady Chatham and Her Correspondents, 1740s-1760s5. Consolidating the Feminine PrivateConclusion: Defining "Women"Notes
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Mary Beth Norton is Mary Donlon Alger Professor of History at Cornell University. She is the author of many books, including Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800, also from Cornell; In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692; and Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society.