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  • Observations on the Real Rights of Women and Other Writings
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  • Hannah Mather Crocker, Edited and with an introduction by Constance J. Post
  • 2011
  • Published by: University of Nebraska Press
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Following in the path of her distinguished Puritan forebears, Hannah Mather Crocker used her skills as a writer primarily to persuade. Unlike those forebears, however, she did not begin her career as a published writer until well into middle age, after the death of her husband, Joseph Crocker, and after having raised ten children. The works collected here include previously unpublished poetry, drama, memoirs, sermons, and essays on American identity, education, and history, as well as the three texts published in her lifetime. This volume is named for her most famous work, Observations on the Real Rights of Women. Originally published in 1818, it is widely considered the first published treatise on women’s rights written by an American woman and serves as a rare example of women’s views of their own roles within the early American republic. This collection also mirrors the many changes that occurred in the United States during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, highlighting the shift in attitude toward women’s rights, education, and other reform movements as well as the American Revolution. Crocker’s writing provides a rare and valuable window into the concerns of women who embodied Enlightenment ideals during the years of the early republic.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Frontmatter
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  1. Title Page
  2. p. iii
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  1. Copyright Page
  2. pp. iv-vi
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  1. Table of Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. ix-xi
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. xiii-xlix
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  1. A Note on the Text
  2. pp. li-lviii
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  1. I . Finding a Voice, 1812–1814
  1. Fast Sermon
  2. pp. 3-10
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  1. Thanksgiving Sermon
  2. pp. 11-18
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  1. An Humble Address to the Reason and Wisdom of the American Nation
  2. pp. 19-26
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  1. Antiquarian Researches, Pleasant and Easy
  2. pp. 27-38
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  1. II. Becoming an Advocate, 1815–1819
  1. A Series of Letters on Free Masonry
  2. pp. 39-60
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  1. The School of Reform, or Seaman’s Safe Pilot to the Cape of Good Hope
  2. pp. 61-70
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  1. Observations on the Real Rights of Women, with Their Appropriate Duties, Agreeable to Scripture, Reason and Common Sense
  2. pp. 71-144
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  1. The Midnight Beau
  2. pp. 145-158
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  1. III. Taking Stock, 1820–1829
  1. Selections from “Reminiscences and Traditions of Boston, Being an Account of the Original Proprietors of That Town, the Manners and Customs of Its People”
  2. pp. 159-192
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 193-254
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 255-268
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 269-279
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