Roxana's children : the biography of a nineteenth-century Vermont family / Lynn A. Bonfield and Mary C. Morrison.

By:

Bonfield, Lynn A, 1939-

Contributor(s):

Morrison, Mary Chase

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, �1995.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 267 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0585309515
9780585309514
112205419X
9781122054195

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Roxana's children.DDC classification:

929/.2/0973 20

LOC classification:

CT274.W375 B66 1995eb

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Summary: "This book tells the story of Roxana Brown Walbridge Watts (1802-1862), a farm wife in Peacham, Vermont, and the twelve children she raised - nine of her own, two stepchildren, and a grandchild; six girls and six boys. Mined from a rich lode of primary material - letters, diaries, photographs - these personal histories describe a strikingly broad range of experiences." "In their letters Roxana and her children discuss their daily concerns - farm work and crops, medical emergencies and treatments, the details of marriages, births, and deaths. They write about matters of national significance as well: the westward migration, the contrast between women's and men's experiences, the temperance and abolition movements, the mechanization of farm life, and the increase of secularization. Together their stories offer an intimate portrait of an American family caught up in the sweep of a century of change."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-256) and index.

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"This book tells the story of Roxana Brown Walbridge Watts (1802-1862), a farm wife in Peacham, Vermont, and the twelve children she raised - nine of her own, two stepchildren, and a grandchild; six girls and six boys. Mined from a rich lode of primary material - letters, diaries, photographs - these personal histories describe a strikingly broad range of experiences." "In their letters Roxana and her children discuss their daily concerns - farm work and crops, medical emergencies and treatments, the details of marriages, births, and deaths. They write about matters of national significance as well: the westward migration, the contrast between women's and men's experiences, the temperance and abolition movements, the mechanization of farm life, and the increase of secularization. Together their stories offer an intimate portrait of an American family caught up in the sweep of a century of change."--Jacket.

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