Marriage in the Early Republic
Subtitle: Elizabeth and William Wirt and the Companionate Ideal (Gender Relations in the American Experience)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: May 7, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780801871108
Subjects: Gender studies; Marriage; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; United States - General; History: American; History; History - General History; USA; Customs & Traditions; Sociology - Marriage & Family; United States - 19th Century; History / United States / General
First sentence: In 1828, Margaret Bayard Smith, a Washington, D.C., resident and a popular domestic author, decribed a most congenial "evening social visit" in a letter to her son.