Gentlewomen and Learned Ladies
Women and Elite Formation in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia
Sarah Fatherly
Barcode 9781611460476
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Release Date: 01/09/2008
Genre: Society & Culture
Sub-Genre: Social Sciences
Label: Lehigh University Press
Series: Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
Language: English
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Women and Elite Formation in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia
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.