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- Observations on the Real Rights of Women and Other Writings
- Book
- 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 The works collected here include previously unpublished poetry, drama, memoirs, sermons, and essays on American identity, education, and history, as well as the three texts published in her lifetime.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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page
- p. iii
- Copyright Page
- pp. iv-vi
- Table of Contents
- pp. vii-viii
- Introduction
- pp. xiii-xlix
- A Note on the Text
- pp. li-lviii
- I . Finding a Voice, 1812–1814
- Fast Sermon
- pp. 3-10
- Thanksgiving Sermon
- pp. 11-18
- II. Becoming an Advocate, 1815–1819
- A Series of Letters on Free Masonry
- pp. 39-60
- The Midnight Beau
- pp. 145-158
- III. Taking Stock, 1820–1829
- Bibliography
- pp. 255-268
Additional Information
ISBN
9780803235489
Related ISBN(s)
9780803216150
MARC Record
OCLC
733040366
Pages
340
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No