The years of the American Revolution were times of changing loyalties, fierce battles and internecine rivalries, and the women's perspective provided a fresh view for interpretation of the times. In her 1849 volume The Women of the American Revolution, Elizabeth F. Ellet took this task to heart as she recounted in detail the stories of over 120 women who assisted in the fight for freedom. Drawing from a wealth of material - personal interviews, diaries, biographies, and manuscript letters - she probed the details of their personal triumphs and tragedies, and presented them in a popular style easily appreciated by contemporary readers. With her unique documentation, much of which is now lost to present historians, she was able to set intimate scenes for the period and breathe life into her characterizations. She presented women at the hearth and on the battlefield in the same factual yet entertaining manner. While the author recounted the lives of many of the more popular participants - Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Jane McCrea, and Mercy Warren - she included many lesser-known individuals, as well as women of several nationalities, lending a more balanced and credible view to the course of the narrative. Anecdotes of personal bravery, clever escapes, and valiant stands mark the pages of The Women of the American Revolution, and even a brief review will entice any reader. These stories were not dry historical accounts; they were meant to be read as incidents in the lives of real Americans during trying times. More than a few of the participants were contemporary with the author and this reveals itself in the personal style of her writing. Includes stories from the exciting lives of Mary Washington, Esther Reed, Catharine Schuyler, Catharine Greene, Mercy Warren, Janet Montgomery, Hannah Winthrop, Catharine Livingston, Lucia Knox, Mrs. Gates, Mary Draper, Mrs. Pond, Frederica de Riedesel, Dorothy Hancock, Sarah Hull, Harriet Ackland, Hannah Erwin Israel, Mary Redmond, Lydia Darrah, Rebecca Franks, Elizabeth Ferguson, Mary Philipse, Sarah Reeve Gibbes, Mary Anna Gibbes, Eliza Wilkinson, Martha Bratton, Mrs. Adair, Jane Thomas, Isaballa Sims, Mrs. Jolly, Mrs. Otterson, Nancy Jackson, Jane McJunkin, Dorcas Richardson, Elizabeth Martin, Grace martin, Rachel Martin, Mrs. Spalding, Dicey Langston, Mrs. Dillard, Mrs. Potter, Mrs. Beckham, Elizabeth Steele, Mrs. Brevard, Mrs. Jackson, Mary Slocumb, Esther Wake, Sarah Bache, Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Shaw, Mrs. Cranch, Elizabeth Clay, Martha Wilson, Rebecca Motte, Mrs. Brewton, Susannah Elliott, Sabina Elliott, Mrs. Lewis Morris, Jane Washington, Anna Elliott, Sarah Hopton, Behethland Foote Butler, Hannah Caldwell, Susan Livingston, Catherine Livingston, Susannah Livingston, Lady Stirling, Deborah Samson, Margaret Gaston, Flora McDonald, Rachel Caldwell, Mary Long, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Skinner, Mrs. Myers, Mrs. Ives, Mrs. Bidlack, Mrs. Young, Mrs. Dana, Frances Slocum, Wyoming women, Wawasink women, Mrs. Bevier, Catharine Vernooy, Jane Campbell, Cornelia Beekman, Frances Allen, Margaret Arnold, Jane McCrea, Nancy Hart, Rebecca Biddle, Mrs. Graydon, Ann Eliza Bleecker, Margaretta Faugeres, Alice Izard, Mrs. Ralph Izard, Anna Bailey, Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Shattuck, Rebecca Barlow, Kentucky women, Mrs. Boone, Mrs. Whitley, Mrs. harvey, Mrs. Daviess, Mrs. Russell, Mrs. Woods, Mrs. Merrill, Elizabeth Zane, Margaret Morris, Mrs. Maxwell, Mrs. Dissosway, Mrs. Jackson, Mary Bowen, Mrs. Walker, Emily Geiger, Mrs. Griswold, Hannah Mooney, Mrs. Wadsworth, Mrs. Munro, Mrs. Borden, Mrs. Heyward, Mrs. Shubrick, Mrs. Hall and Mrs. Conyngham.

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We have often studied the adventures and exploits of the men who participated in our country's War for Independence. However, as Abigail Adams reminded us in a letter she wrote to her husband John, we should "...remember the ladies". Their contributions were as vital, and in many cases comparable to that of their male counterparts during the struggle for Colonial autonomy. "The Women of the American Revolution - Volume III", published in 1850, is the last volume of the three part series penned by historian Elizabeth F. Ellet. In it she recounts the details of the lives and anecdotes of forty four American heroines who helped in the quest for American freedom. These women include Annis Stockton, Lucy Knox, Margaret Whetten, Mrs. Todd, Blandina Bruyn, Anne Fitzhugh, Katherine Steel, Mrs. Beard, Barbara McKenny, Nancy Green, Mrs. Motte, Esther Walker, Mrs. Gaston, Mary McClure, Jane Morrow, Isabella Ferguson, Mary Johnson, Jane Boyd, Mrs. Simpson, Jane Gaston, Mrs. Strong, Margaret Elliot, Mrs. Haynes, Sarah McCalla, Mary Adair, Mary Nixon, Mary Mills, Isabella Wylie, Rebecca Pickens, Sarah Buchanan, Nancy Van Alstine, Eleanor Wilson, Margaret Moncrieffe, Mary Murray, Mrs. Woodhull, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Rapalje, Mary Knight, Mrs. Osborn, Miss Susan Livingston, Lady Stirling, Experience Bozarth, Elizabeth Ferguson, Mercy Warren. The years before the American Revolution were times of changing loyalties and internecine rivalries, and the women's perspective provided a fresh view for interpretation of the times. Drawing from a wealth of sources - personal interviews, diaries, letters, and manuscripts - she probed the details of their personal triumphs and tragedies, and presented them in a popular and engaging style that can still be appreciated and enjoyed by contemporary readers. With her unique perspective, she gave new life to this period of Colonial history. She not only presented women at the hearth - she followed them to the battlefield and beyond. Read these anecdotes of personal bravery, clever escapes, and valiant stands - the efforts of true American women who were heroes in their time. These stories are not dry historical accounts, but are meant to be read, enjoyed, and recalled for generations to come. An instant bestseller in its time, we are proud to bring this rare volume back into print for all to enjoy. The stories and deeds in "The Women of the American Revolution - Volume III" provide inspiration for us all, and should be on the shelves of all American libraries.

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Women in the American Revolution: Volume 2

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Women of the American Revolution: Volume 3

The profiles and life stories of 160 patriotic women who were committed to the American Revolution and to the settling of the American frontier........Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet (October 18, 1818 - June 3, 1877) was an American writer, historian and poet. She was the first writer to record the lives of women who contributed to the American Revolutionary War.Born Elizabeth Fries Lummis, in New York, she published her first book, Poems, Translated and Original, in 1835. She married the chemist William Henry Ellet and the couple moved to South Carolina. She had published several books and contributed to multiple journals. In 1845 she moved back to New York and took her place in the literary scene there. She was involved with a public scandal involving Edgar Allan Poe and Frances Sargent Osgood and, later, another involving Rufus Wilmot Griswold. Ellet's most important work, The Women of the American Revolution, was published in 1845. The three volume book profiled the lives of patriotic women in the early history of the United States. She continued writing until her death in 1877.Career:In 1835, Elizabeth Lummis published her first book, entitled Poems, Translated and Original, which included her tragedy, Teresa Contarini, based on the history of Venice, that was successfully performed in New York and other cities. Around this time she married William Henry Ellet (1806-1859), a chemist from New York City.He graduated from Columbia College in New York and earned a gold medal for a dissertation on the compounds of cyanogen. The couple moved to Columbia, South Carolina, when he was made professor of chemistry, mineralogy and geology at South Carolina College in 1836. He also discovered a new and inexpensive method of preparing guncotton, for which the state of South Carolina presented him a service of silver plate.During this time Ellet published several books. In 1839 she wrote The Characters of Schiller, a critical essay on the writer Friedrich Schiller including her translation of many of his poems.[9] She wrote Scenes in the Life of Joanna of Sicily, a history of the lifestyles of female nobility, and Rambles about the Country, a lively description of the scenery she had observed in her travels through the United States, in 1840. She continued writing poems, translations and essays on European literature which she contributed to the American Monthly, the North American Review, the Southern Literary Messenger, the Southern Quarterly Review and other periodicals. Ellet wrote abundantly in a wide variety of genres.In 1845, Ellet left her husband in the south, moving back to New York City where she resumed her place as a member of literary society along with such writers as Margaret Fuller, Anne Lynch Botta, Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Anna Cora Mowatt and Frances Sargent Osgood............

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