A cheerful and comfortable faith : Anglican religious practice in the elite households of eighteenth-century Virginia /
Winner, Lauren F.
New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
With cold water and silver bowls : becoming an Anglican in eighteenth-century Virginia -- Becoming a "Christian woman" : needlework and girls' religious formation -- People of the book: liturgical culture and the domestic uses of prayer books -- Sarah Foote Stuart's fish sauce: the liturgical year around the table -- To comfort the living : the household choreography of death and mourning -- Epilogue. Lucy Smith Digges's "Little old fashioned oblong black walnut" table : household religious practice in Episcopalian Virginia.
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