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Susan E. Klepp (Ed.) - The Diary of Hannah Callender Sansom: Sense and Sensibility in the Age of the American Revolution - 9780801447846 - V9780801447846
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The Diary of Hannah Callender Sansom: Sense and Sensibility in the Age of the American Revolution

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Description for The Diary of Hannah Callender Sansom: Sense and Sensibility in the Age of the American Revolution Hardback. Editor(s): Klepp, Susan E.; Wulf, Karin A. Num Pages: 376 pages, 11. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; BJ; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 685.

Hannah Callender Sansom (1737–1801) witnessed the effects of the tumultuous eighteenth century: political struggles, war and peace, and economic development. She experienced the pull of traditional emphases on duty, subjection, and hierarchy and the emergence of radical new ideas promoting free choice, liberty, and independence. Regarding these changes from her position as a well-educated member of the colonial Quaker elite and as a resident of Philadelphia, the principal city in North America, this assertive, outspoken woman described her life and her society in a diary kept intermittently from the time she was twenty-one years old in 1758 through the birth ... Read more

As a young woman, she enjoyed sociable rounds of visits and conviviality. She also had considerable freedom to travel and to develop her interests in the arts, literature, and religion. In 1762, under pressure from her father, she married fellow Quaker Samuel Sansom. While this arranged marriage made financial and social sense, her father's plans failed to consider the emerging goals of sensibility, including free choice and emotional fulfillment in marriage. Hannah Callender Sansom's struggle to become reconciled to an unhappy marriage is related in frank terms both through daily entries and in certain silences in the record. Ultimately she did create a life of meaning centered on children, religion, and domesticity. When her beloved daughter Sarah was of marriageable age, Hannah Callender Sansom made certain that, despite risking her standing among Quakers, Sarah was able to marry for love.

Long held in private hands, the complete text of Hannah Callender Sanson's extraordinary diary is published here for the first time. In-depth interpretive essays, as well as explanatory footnotes, provide context for students and other readers. The diary is one of the earliest, fullest documents written by an American woman, and it provides fresh insights into women's experience in early America, the urban milieu of the emerging middle classes, and the culture that shaped both.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801447846
SKU
V9780801447846
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About Susan E. Klepp (Ed.)
Susan E. Klepp is Professor of History at Temple University. She is author of Revolutionary Conceptions: Women, Fertility and Family Limitation in America, 1760–1820, among other books, and coeditor of The Infortunate: The Voyage and Adventures of William Moraley, An Indentured Servant. Karin Wulf is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at the College of William and Mary. She ... Read more

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Long held in private hands, an extraordinary diary kept by Hannah Callender Sansom (1737-1801) has been published verbatim for the first time in this book, which includes in-depth interpretative essays and explanatory footnotes that provide context for readers. Sansom's diary is one of the earliest, fullest documents written by an American woman, and it yields fresh insights into women's experiences ... Read more

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