Indian Antiquities Or Dissertations Relative To The Ancient Geographical Divisions The Pure System Of Primeval Theology The Grand Code Of Civil Laws The Original Form Of Government The Widely Extended Commerce And The Various And Profound Literature Of Hindostan

Author : Hannah Mather Crocker
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803216157
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Observations on the Real Rights of Women and Other Writings written by Hannah Mather Crocker and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following in the path of her distinguished Puritan forebears, Hannah Mather Crocker used her skills as a writer primarily to persuade. Unlike those forebears, however, she did not begin her career as a published writer until well into middle age, after the death of her husband, Joseph Crocker, and after having raised ten children. The works collected here include previously unpublished poetry, drama, memoirs, sermons, and essays on American identity, education, and history, as well as the three texts published in her lifetime. This volume is named for her most famous work, Observations on the Real Rights of Women. Originally published in 1818, it is widely considered the first published treatise on women?s rights written by an American woman and serves as a rare example of women?s views of their own roles within the early American republic. This collection also mirrors the many changes that occurred in the United States during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, highlighting the shift in attitude toward women?s rights, education, and other reform movements as well as the American Revolution. Crocker?s writing provides a rare and valuable window into the concerns of women who embodied Enlightenment ideals during the years of the early republic.