Colonial Women of Affairs: A Study of Women in Business and the Professions in America Before 1776Houghton Mifflin, 1924 - 203 páginas |
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... LIVED 126 From a photograph furnished by Mr. George Francis Dow , of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities TITLE - PAGE OF MRS . MARY ROWLANDSON'S NARRA- TIVE 132 From a copy of the book in the John Carter Brown ...
... LIVED 126 From a photograph furnished by Mr. George Francis Dow , of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities TITLE - PAGE OF MRS . MARY ROWLANDSON'S NARRA- TIVE 132 From a copy of the book in the John Carter Brown ...
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... lived to see . Be this as it may , the midwife was an important member of colonial society ; and indeed for a time had a legal monopoly of obstetrical work . In the town of Wells , Maine , in 1675 , Captain Francis Rayns was " presented ...
... lived to see . Be this as it may , the midwife was an important member of colonial society ; and indeed for a time had a legal monopoly of obstetrical work . In the town of Wells , Maine , in 1675 , Captain Francis Rayns was " presented ...
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... lived to the advanced age of 87 years , officiated as midwife at more than 2,000 births and never lost a patient . Standards of training for nurses were even lower , if that be possible , than for midwives . Wet nurses , who hardly ...
... lived to the advanced age of 87 years , officiated as midwife at more than 2,000 births and never lost a patient . Standards of training for nurses were even lower , if that be possible , than for midwives . Wet nurses , who hardly ...
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... lived on Second Street , directly opposite General Howe's quarters . ( These were probably in the Golden Fleece Tavern , noted in Mrs. Darragh's advertise- ment . ) The Darraghs ' house may have been 1 Ellet , vol . 1 , p . 171 and ff ...
... lived on Second Street , directly opposite General Howe's quarters . ( These were probably in the Golden Fleece Tavern , noted in Mrs. Darragh's advertise- ment . ) The Darraghs ' house may have been 1 Ellet , vol . 1 , p . 171 and ff ...
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... of the aged Franklin , who was still writing at this date . Whoever the author , however , it is worth much to have lived and worked so as to leave such a reputation . CHAPTER V THE SCHOOL DAME THE idler in the old THE MINISTERING ANGEL.
... of the aged Franklin , who was still writing at this date . Whoever the author , however , it is worth much to have lived and worked so as to leave such a reputation . CHAPTER V THE SCHOOL DAME THE idler in the old THE MINISTERING ANGEL.
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Página 122 - I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits, A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong, For such despite they cast on female wits: If what I do prove well, it won't advance, They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance.
Página 54 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Página 162 - I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both...
Página xvii - For if she had attended her household affairs, and such. things as belong to women, and not gone out of her way and calling to meddle in such things as are proper for men, whose minds are stronger, etc., she had kept her wits, and might have improved them usefully and honorably in the place God had set her.
Página 130 - Cannoo to carry me to tother side, and hee rid thro' and Led my hors. The Cannoo was very small and shallow, so that when we were in she seem'd redy to take in water, which greatly terrified mee, and caused me to be very circumspect, sitting with my hands fast on each side, my eyes stedy, not daring so much as to lodg my...
Página 125 - Here stood that Trunk, and there that chest; There lay that store I counted best: My pleasant things in ashes lye, And them behold no more shall I. Under thy roof no guest shall sitt, Nor at thy Table eat a bitt.
Página 122 - And oh ye high flown quills that soar the skies, And ever with your prey still catch your praise...
Página 16 - Intituled to some of the Sweets of it; but we find ourselves entirely neglected, while the Husbands that live in our Neighborhood are daily invited to Dine at Court; we have the Vanity to think we can be full as Entertaining, and make as brave a Defence in Case of an Invasion and perhaps not turn Taile so soon as some of them.
Página 126 - My heart was so heavy before that I could scarce speak or go in the path and yet now so light that I could run. My strength seemed to come again and...
Página 112 - English terms. Her father has a plant called after him, Coldenia; suppose you should call this Coldenella, or any other name that might distinguish her among your genera.