HBS
's domestic training consisted of learning knitting, sewing, and Presbyterian and Episcopal church catechisms from an aunt and grandmother who were skilled at weaving and embroidery.
Hedrick, Joan. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1994.
12-13
Her father did not allow novels in...
Literary responses
Anne Bradstreet
Bathsua Makin
offered AB
as an example of an excellent poet in her Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen, 1673, thereby bringing her to the attention of a large female readership in...
Timeline
February 1721: Smallpox seemed to go forth like a Destroying...
Building item
February 1721
Smallpox seemed to go forth like a Destroying Angel in England.
Maitland, Charles. Mr Maitland’s Account of Inoculating the Small Pox. Printed for the author by J. Downing and to be sold by J. Roberts, 1722.
3
Ola Elizabeth Winslow titles her book on the smallpox epidemic in Boston from Cotton Mather
's quotation of this phrase from Charles Massey
's pamphlet.
