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A renowned literary coterie in eighteenth-century Philadelphia--Elizabeth Fergusson, Hannah Griffitts, Deborah Logan, Annis Stockton, and Susanna Wright--wrote and exchanged thousands of poems and maintained elaborate handwritten commonplace books of memorabilia. Through their creativity and celebrated hospitality, they initiated a salon culture in their great country houses in the Delaware Valley. In this stunningly original and heavily illustrated book, Susan M. Stabile shows that these female writers sought to memorialize their lives and aesthetic experience--a purpose that stands in marked contrast to the civic concerns of male authors in the republican era. Drawing equally on material culture and literary history, Stabile discusses how the group used their writings to explore and at times replicate the arrangement of their material possessions, including desks, writing paraphernalia, mirrors, miniatures, beds, and coffins. As she reconstructs the poetics of memory that informed the women's lives and structured their manuscripts, Stabile focuses on vernacular architecture, penmanship, souvenir collecting, and mourning.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Memory's Daughters
• Subtitle: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America
• Author: Susan M. Stabile
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780801440311
• ISBN: 0801440319
• ID: 04706299
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Weight: 684 g
• Dimensions: 161 × 235 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. March 2004

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