Interesting Family Letters, of the Late Mrs. Ruth Patten, of Hartford, Conn
Author : Ruth Patten
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Page : 324 pages
File Size : 33,71 MB
Release : 1845
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Author : Ruth Patten
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Page : 324 pages
File Size : 33,71 MB
Release : 1845
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Author : Ruth Patten
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Page : 314 pages
File Size : 22,24 MB
Release : 1845
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Author : Ruth Wheelock Patten
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : pages
File Size : 12,14 MB
Release : 2016-05-21
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ISBN : 9781358209420
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Author : Susan P. Schoelwer
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 26,93 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0819571261
Winner of the Connecticut Book Award (2011) Winner of the Connecticut League of History Organizations Award of Merit (2012) Connecticut women have long been noted for their creation of colorful and distinctive needlework, including samplers and family registers, bed rugs and memorial pictures, crewel-embroidered bed hangings and garments, silk-embroidered pictures of classical or religious scenes, quilted petticoats and bedcovers, and whitework dresses and linens. This volume offers the first regional study, encompassing the full range of needle arts produced prior to 1840. Seventy entries showcase more than one hundred fascinating examples—many never before published—from the Connecticut Historical Society's extensive collection of this early American art form. Produced almost exclusively by women and girls, the needle arts provide an illuminating vantage point for exploring early American women's history and education, including family-based traditions predating the establishment of formal academies after the American Revolution. Extensive genealogical research reveals unseen family connections linking various types of needlework, similar to the multi-generational male workshops documented for other artisan trades, such as woodworking or metalsmithing. Photographs of stitches, reverse sides, sketches, design sources, and related works enhance our understanding and appreciation of this fragile art form and the talented women who created it. An exhibition of needlework in this book will be held at the Connecticut Historical Society in late fall, 2010. Funding for this project has been provided by the Coby Foundation, Ltd., and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Author : Carol Huber
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 22,17 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0819572292
The Connecticut River Valley was an important center for the teaching and production of embroidered pictures by young women in private academies from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. This book identifies the distinctive styles developed by teachers and students at schools throughout the valley, from Connecticut and Massachusetts to Vermont and New Hampshire. Needlework was a means of instilling the values of citizenship, faith, knowledge, and patriotism into girls who would become mothers in the early republic. This book describes and illustrates how these embroideries provide insight into the nature of women's schooling at this time. Over the course of their education, girls undertook progressively more complex and difficult needlework. Before the age of ten, they stitched elementary samplers on linen. As the culmination of their studies, they executed elaborate samplers, memorials, and silk pictures as evidence of the skills and accomplishments befitting a lady. Proudly displayed as enticements to potential suitors, these pieces affirmed a young woman's mastery of the polite arts, which encompassed knowledge of religious and literary themes as well as art and music. This publication has been made possible through the generous support of The Coby Foundation, Ltd., the Connecticut Humanities Council, the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund, and several private donors.
Author : Lisa Grunwald
Publisher : Dial Press Trade Paperback
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 45,54 MB
Release : 2009-01-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0307493334
Historical events of the last three centuries come alive through these women’s singular correspondences—often their only form of public expression. In 1775, Rachel Revere tries to send financial aid to her husband, Paul, in a note that is confiscated by the British; First Lady Dolley Madison tells her sister about rescuing George Washington’s portrait during the War of 1812; one week after JFK’s assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy pens a heartfelt letter to Nikita Khrushchev; and on September 12, 2001, a schoolgirl writes a note of thanks to a New York City firefighter, asking him, “Were you afraid?” The letters gathered here also offer fresh insight into the personal milestones in women’s lives. Here is a mid-nineteenth-century missionary describing a mastectomy performed without anesthesia; Marilyn Monroe asking her doctor to spare her ovaries in a handwritten note she taped to her stomach before appendix surgery; an eighteen-year-old telling her mother about her decision to have an abortion the year after Roe v. Wade; and a woman writing to her parents and in-laws about adopting a Chinese baby. With more than 400 letters and over 100 stunning photographs, Women’s Letters is a work of astonishing breadth and scope, and a remarkable testament to the women who lived–and made–history. From the Hardcover edition.
Author : Mary Beth Norton
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 16,53 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801483479
Explores the lives of colonial women, particularly during the Revolutionary War years, arguing that eighteenth-century Americans had very clear notions of appropriate behavior for females and the functions they were expected to perform, and that most women suffered from low self-esteem, believing themselves inferior to men.
Author : Gwenn Davis
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,55 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Wadsworth Atheneum
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Page : 554 pages
File Size : 45,4 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Art
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Author : William DeLoss Love
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Page : 448 pages
File Size : 26,36 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Connecticut
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