Liberty's Daughters Author:Mary Beth Norton The book is divided into two sections. The first, composed of five chapters traces the constant patterns of women's lives, those aspect of their existence that remained the same during the last half of the eighteenth century, both before and after the Revolution. The second, with four chapters, examines some new trends that first... more » appeared in the revolutionary and post-revolutionary years.....
The last chapter and the conclusion indicate the ways in which the author thinks that the late eighteenth-century trends were related to nineteenth century developments....
Contents:
The constant patterns of women's lives --
The small circle of domestic concerns --
The important crisis upon which our fate depends --