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The profiles and life stories of 160 patriotic women who were committed to the American Revolution and to the settling of the American frontier.
Author : Elizabeth F. Ellet
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 27,40 MB
Release : 2017-11-09
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ISBN : 9781979582247
The profiles and life stories of 160 patriotic women who were committed to the American Revolution and to the settling of the American frontier.
Author : Elizabeth F. Ellet
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 13,28 MB
Release : 2018-05-16
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ISBN : 9781719202633
The profiles and life stories of 160 patriotic women who were committed to the American Revolution and to the settling of the American frontier........ Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet (October 18, 1818 - June 3, 1877) was an American writer, historian and poet. She was the first writer to record the lives of women who contributed to the American Revolutionary War. Born Elizabeth Fries Lummis, in New York, she published her first book, Poems, Translated and Original, in 1835. She married the chemist William Henry Ellet and the couple moved to South Carolina. She had published several books and contributed to multiple journals. In 1845 she moved back to New York and took her place in the literary scene there. She was involved with a public scandal involving Edgar Allan Poe and Frances Sargent Osgood and, later, another involving Rufus Wilmot Griswold. Ellet's most important work, The Women of the American Revolution, was published in 1845. The three volume book profiled the lives of patriotic women in the early history of the United States. She continued writing until her death in 1877. Career: In 1835, Elizabeth Lummis published her first book, entitled Poems, Translated and Original, which included her tragedy, Teresa Contarini, based on the history of Venice, that was successfully performed in New York and other cities. Around this time she married William Henry Ellet (1806-1859), a chemist from New York City.He graduated from Columbia College in New York and earned a gold medal for a dissertation on the compounds of cyanogen. The couple moved to Columbia, South Carolina, when he was made professor of chemistry, mineralogy and geology at South Carolina College in 1836. He also discovered a new and inexpensive method of preparing guncotton, for which the state of South Carolina presented him a service of silver plate. During this time Ellet published several books. In 1839 she wrote The Characters of Schiller, a critical essay on the writer Friedrich Schiller including her translation of many of his poems.[9] She wrote Scenes in the Life of Joanna of Sicily, a history of the lifestyles of female nobility, and Rambles about the Country, a lively description of the scenery she had observed in her travels through the United States, in 1840. She continued writing poems, translations and essays on European literature which she contributed to the American Monthly, the North American Review, the Southern Literary Messenger, the Southern Quarterly Review and other periodicals. Ellet wrote abundantly in a wide variety of genres. In 1845, Ellet left her husband in the south, moving back to New York City where she resumed her place as a member of literary society along with such writers as Margaret Fuller, Anne Lynch Botta, Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Anna Cora Mowatt and Frances Sargent Osgood............
Author : Elizabeth F. Ellet
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 37,42 MB
Release : 2016-11-21
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ISBN : 9781540551580
The profiles and life stories of 160 patriotic women who were committed to the American Revolution and to the settling of the American frontier. The American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), also known as the American War of Independence and the Revolutionary War in the United States, was the armed conflict between Great Britain and thirteen of its North American colonies, which became the independent United States of America. Early fighting took place primarily on the North American continent. France, eager for revenge after its defeat in the Seven Years' War, signed an alliance with the new nation in 1778 that proved decisive in the ultimate victory. The war had its origins in the resistance of many Americans to taxes, which they claimed were unjust, imposed by the British parliament. Patriot protests escalated into boycotts, and on December 16, 1773, the destruction of a shipment of tea at the Boston Tea Party. The British government retaliated by closing the port of Boston and taking away self-government.
Author : Elizabeth F. Ellet
Publisher : Nova Snova
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 2019-05-28
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ISBN : 9781536156850
When Elizabeth F. Ellet compiled her history of "The Women of the Revolution," she could not have foreseen the deep interest in Colonial and Revolutionary history, that was destined to mark the last decade of the Nineteenth Century, nor could she have realized that the various patriotic societies that were to be organized among women, would lead to as great an interest in the lives of the mothers as in those of the fathers of the Republic. Yet the writer of these sketches of noted women has prepared for just such a phase of American life, which makes her work now appear a prophecy of the future as well as a summary of past events.
Author : Elizabeth Fries Ellet
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File Size : 46,83 MB
Release : 1851
Category : United States
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Author : Elizabeth Fries Ellet
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Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,60 MB
Release : 1819
Category : United States
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Author : Elizabeth F. Ellet
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 10,66 MB
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752399724
Reproduction of the original: The Women of the American Revolution by Elizabeth F. Ellet
Author : Elizabeth Fries (Lummis) Ellet (Mrs. W. H. Ellet.)
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Page : 440 pages
File Size : 36,40 MB
Release : 1900
Category : United States
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Author : Elizabeth Ellet
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Page : 678 pages
File Size : 17,70 MB
Release : 2011-01-05
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ISBN : 9781456486976
The Women of The American Revolution: Volumes 1 & 2 by Elizabeth F. Ellet
Author : Elizabeth F. Ellet
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,30 MB
Release : 2020-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752345373
Reproduction of the original: The Women, of the American Revolution by Elizabeth F. Ellet