Martha Bradstreet and the “Epithet of Woman”: A Story of Land, Libel, Litigation, and Legitimating “Unwomanly” Behavior in the Early Republic.
Drawing on a trove of recently discovered primary documents, this microhistorical essay reconstructs the life and legal experiences of Martha Bradstreet, a woman of some pedigree but limited means, who emigrated from Ireland in 1799 to recover a lost landed inheritance in central New York. Over the...
| Publicado en: | Early American Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 13; no. 3; pp. 544 - 586 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Summer2015
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