"Circumstances are destiny" an Antebellum woman's struggle to define sphere /
Celestia Rice Colby, born in Ohio in 1827, had lifestyle options that were relatively straightforward for the typical white female child born in the first half of the nineteenth century: she married in 1848, had five children, spent much of her life working as a dairy farmer and housewife, and died...
| Основен автор: | Brakebill, Tina Stewart, 1962- |
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| Други автори: | Colby, Celestia Rice, 1827-1900. |
| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Kent, Ohio :
Kent State University Press,
℗♭2006.
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| Серия: |
Civil War in the North.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=493369 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
"Circumstances are destiny". |
Съдържание:
- 1827-1848 : "The impress of the Connecticut character"
- 1848-1853 : "It is my first desire to be a blessing to my husband and
- train up my child in the way of virtue and religion"
- 1853-1857 : "Her influence at home
- may sway the destinies of the world"
- October 1857-January 1858 : "I sometimes think my whole being is changed"
- December 1857-May 1858 : "Yet I live a life they know not of"
- June 1858-December 1858 : "Eleven years ago to day since I took upon myself the cares of a housekeeper"
- November 1858-November 1859 : "I wish for a 'bright little isle' to be peopled with the good, the loving, the gifted"
- November 1859-February 1861 : "I am accomplishing nothing"
- February 1861-November 1861 : "Dark and fearful must be the struggle"
- September 1861-December 1862 : "He is the true patriot
- whose patriotism is only another term for the love of truth, justice and humanity"
- September 1862-April 1865 : "And we women
- can only wait, and wait"
- February 1865-July 1900 : "If I only could leave behind all the darkness
- and forget the past."