Table of Contents

Preface: A Woman for All Seasons
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Editorial Note
List of Short Titles and Abbreviations
Family Tree
1. Youth and Courtship, 1758-1761
2. Wife and Mother, 1762-1775
3. Middle Age in Years of Crisis, 1776-1793
4. Grandmother and Grand Mother, 1794-1807
Biographical Directory
Index of Names
Subject Index

Promotional Information

Focusing on different stages of Drinker's personal development within the domestic context, this abridged edition highlights four critical phases of her life cycle: youth and courtship, wife and mother, middle age in years of crisis, and grandmother and family elder.

About the Author

Elaine Forman Crane is Professor of History at Fordham University. She is the author of Killed Strangely: The Death of Rebecca Cornell and editor of the journal Early American Studies, the latter also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Reviews

"[Drinker's] diary, which spans the years 1758 to 1807, is the most substantial woman's diary that survives from eighteenth-century America; and it ranks with the diaries of Samuel Sewall, William Byrd, Landon Carter, John Adams, and William Bentley in its richness as a source for understanding the social and cultural history of the period it covers." (American Historical Review)