 | The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker: The Life Cycle of an Eighteenth-Century Woman Subjects: Drinker Elizabeth Sandwith 1734–1807 -- Diaries; Women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Diaries; Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Diaries; Women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social life and customs -- 18th century; Quakers -- Pennsylvan; 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. 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. |
