BENSON, Mary Sumner

WOMEN IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA,; A study of opinion and social usage.

NY: Columbia, 1935. First Edition. tall 8vo, pp. 343. Ex-library with bookplates fore and aft. A very good copy. Item #23740

"The purpose of this study is to show certain aspects of the position of women in eighteenth-century America-in theory and in fact. Such treatment of theoretical material is almost of necessity confined to women of the upper and middle classes. .. The first six chapters of the essay deal primarily with the theoretical aspects of women's position ... " Includes an extensive bibliography of books about the position of women.

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