Review: Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women
A Fresh Perspective on the Revolutionary War and Women's Roles
By Theresa Hemsoth, published Mar 12, 2006
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Mary Beth Norton’s book, Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of Women (Ithaca, 1980) combines the author’s research of the documents, both published and unpublished, of over 450 eighteenth-century families as well as various government reports and statistics in order to gain a more realistic impression of women’s lives both before and after the Revolutionary War. In order to present her thesis, which insists that women’s lives were improved after the Revolution and greater freedoms, both in a social and domestic sense, were gained by their efforts, she tries to integrate women of all classes, backgrounds, and races. Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of Women is divided into two distinct sections, the first of which illustrates the lives of this diverse group of women before the Revolutionary War, while the second section focuses on the changes that were a result of these women’s actions. To faithfully lend insight to modern readers, the bulk of the first section of Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women relies on diaries and letters thus allowing a more personal and intimate vision of these women’s lives.
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Did You Know?
Before the Revolution, women did not usually even know about the househild finances.
Resources
- Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women. Little Brown, 1980
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