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A colonial woman's bookshelf

Despite major advances in women's history, literary history, and the history of the book, the intellectual life of women in colonial America has been a largely neglected area of scholarship. Kevin J. Hayes draws upon an impressive array of primary materials to describe in detail the kinds of books these women read and the reasons why they read them

Print Book, English, ©1996
1st ed
University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, ©1996