Hannah Mather Crocker

Observations on the Real Rights of Women and Other Writings

Herausgeber: Post, Constance J

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Produktbeschreibung

Hannah Mather Crocker (1752¿1829) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to minister Samuel Mather, son of the prominent author and minister Cotton Mather, and his wife, Hannah Hutchinson, sister of the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. She published A Series of Letters on Free Masonry (1815), which she followed with The School of Reform, or Seaman¿s Safe Pilot to the Cape of Good Hope (1816) and Observations on the Real Rights of Women (1818). Constance J. Post is an associate professor of English at Iowa State University and the author of Signs of the Times in Cotton Mather¿s Paterna: A Study of Puritan Autobiography.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780803216150
• ISBN-10: 0803216157
• Artikelnr.: 32737365

Autorenporträt

Hannah Mather Crocker (1752-1829) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to minister Samuel Mather, son of the prominent author and minister Cotton Mather, and his wife, Hannah Hutchinson, sister of the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. She published A Series of Letters on Free Masonry (1815), which she followed with The School of Reform, or Seaman's Safe Pilot to the Cape of Good Hope (1816) and Observations on the Real Rights of Women (1818). Constance J. Post is an associate professor of English at Iowa State University and the author of Signs of the Times in Cotton Mather's Paterna: A Study of Puritan Autobiography.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
A Note on the Text
Part 1. Finding a Voice, 18121814
Fast Sermon
Thanksgiving Sermon
An Humble Address to the Reason and Wisdom of the American Nation
Antiquarian Researches, Pleasant and Easy
Part 2. Becoming an Advocate, 18151819
A Series of Letters on Free Masonry
The School of Reform, or Seaman's Safe Pilot to the Cape of Good Hope
Observations on the Real Rights of Women, with Their Appropriate Duties,
Agreeable to Scripture, Reason and Common Sense
The Midnight Beau
Part 3. Taking Stock, 18201829
Selections from "Reminiscences and Traditions of Boston, Being an Account
of the Original Proprietors of That Town, the Manners and Customs of Its
People"
Notes
Bibliography
Index