Weathering the Storm (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Elizabeth Evans
- First Published: 1975
- Time of Work: 1775–1783
- Setting: North America
- Principal Characters: Jemima Condict Harrison, Martha I’ans Walker, Sarah Wister, Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker, Grace Growdon Galloway, Mary Gould Almy, Jane Young Ferguson, Anna Rawle Clifford, Deborah Sampson Gannett, Elizabeth Foote Washington
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Marriage, Writing, Native Americans or American Indians, Women’s issues, American Revolution, War, Eighteenth century, Letter writing, Women, Biography, Pacifism, Society of Friends or Quakers
- Locales: North America
Form and Content
Weathering the Storm: Women of the American Revolution is a series of histories of the revolutionary war era, each centered in the biography of an individual woman who left evidence of her life and situation through diaries or journals. Author Elizabeth Evans documents the hardships of a wide variety of women who suffered from economic and social discrimination, religious oppression, and physical dangers.
The introductory chapter explains and illustrates the general status of women in revolutionary America. Marriage laws placed women under the...
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