A rare nineteenth-century journal of an everyday woman richly infused with the minutiae of antebellum daily life and work.
In 1820, Phebe Orvis began a journal that she faithfully kept for a decade. Richly detailed, her diary captures not only the everyday life of an ordinary woman in early nineteenth-century Vermont and New York, but also the unusual happenings of her family, neighborhood, and beyond. The journal entries trace Orvis’s transition from single life to marriage and motherhood, including her time at the Middlebury Female Seminary and her observations about the changing social and economic environment of the period. A Quaker, Orvis also recorded the details of the waxing.
An Extraordinary Ordinary Woman: The Journal of Phebe Orvis, 1820-1830 (Excelsior Editions) books pdf online
An Extraordinary Ordinary Woman: The Journal of Phebe Orvis, 1820-1830 (Excelsior Editions) book
An Extraordinary Ordinary Woman: The Journal of Phebe Orvis, 1820-1830 (Excelsior Editions) pdf
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