Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia
"Wulf organizes her book around a series of elegantly intertwined essays, each centered on the experiences of a particular woman and touching on a different aspect of women's lives, from their attitudes towards marriage or their sense of self, to their commercial transactions or their political activities. This approach allows Wulf to create brief but vivid sketches of the lives of individual single women even as she discusses the broader implications of their experiences."—Journal of Social History"Karin Wulf has made an important contribution to early American women's history.Not All Wivesis a gracefully written, extensively researched account of unmarried women's experiences in colonial Philadelphia."—Reviews in American History