The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker: The Life Cycle of an Eighteenth-Century Woman

Elizabeth Drinker; Elaine Forman Crane (ed.)

ISBN 10: 1555531903 / ISBN 13: 9781555531904

Published by Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1994

About this Item

1st printing (1994). 366pp. Original maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. VG clean copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker: The Life Cycle of an Eighteenth-Century Woman
• Publisher: Northeastern University Press, Boston
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555531903
• ISBN 13: 9781555531904
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • History & Politics

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Synopsis

Philadelphia Quaker Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker (1735-1807) wrote in her diary almost continuously. The extraordinary span and sustained quality of the journal make it a rewarding document for a multitude of historical purposes. Published in its entirety in 1991, the diary is now accessible to a wider audience in this abridged edition, which highlights the four critical phases of Drinker's life cycle: youth and courtship, wifehood and motherhood, middle age in years of crisis, and her roles as Grandmother and Grand Mother.

Review

"The publication of this diary in its entirety is a major event in social history. . . These volumes are a treasure to be mined by all those interested in the history of women, the family, medicine, and eighteenth-century society." --Library Journal "These volumes are a treasure to be mined by all those interested in the history of women, the family, medicine, and eighteenth-century society." [Reviewing the unabridged edition]--Library Journal