Gentlewomen and Learned Ladies: Women and Elite Formation in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia (Studies in Eighteenth-century America and the Atlantic World)

By Sarah Fatherly

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0934223947
• ISBN13: 9780934223942
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Lehigh Univ Pr
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.5"