Mary Beth NortonSeparated by Their Sex
Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World
Mary Beth Norton is Mary Donlon Alger Professor of History at Cornell University. She is the author of many books, including Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800, also from Cornell; In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692; and Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society.
Introduction1. Lady Frances Berkeley and Virginia Politics
1675-1678 Mistress Alice Tilly and Her Supporters
1649-16502. English Women in the Public Realm
1642-1653Mistress Elinor James and Her Broadsides
1681-1714 3. John Dunton and the Invention of the Feminine PrivateMistress Sarah Kemble Knight and Her Journal
17044. Women and Politics
Eighteenth Century-StyleLady Chatham and Her Correspondents
1740s-1760s5. Consolidating the Feminine PrivateConclusion: Defining "Women"Notes Index