Rising Tides
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Lewis, Jan E. “A Revolution for Whom? Women in the Era of the American Revolution.” In A Companion to American Women’s History, edited by Nancy A. Hewitt, 83-99. Malden: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2002.
Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980.
Warren, Mercy O. The Adulateur: A Tragedy as it is now acted in Upper Servia. Boston: 1773.
Revolutionizing Women
Conger, Vivian B. “Reading Early American Women’s Political Lives: The Revolutionary Performances of Deborah Read Franklin and Sally Franklin Bache.” Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 16, no. 2 (Spring 2018): 317-352. Project MUSE. https://doi.org/10.1353/earn.2013.0011.
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Jay, Sarah L. Letter to John Jay. 25 October 1794. http://inthewordsofwomen.com/?cat=129&paged=4.
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Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980.
Warren, Mercy O. The Adulateur: A Tragedy as it is now acted in Upper Servia. Boston: 1773.
Warren, Mercy O. 1774. Letter to Hannah Winthrop. Written January 1774. http://inthewordsofwomen.com/?cat=202&paged=2.
Republican Motherhood
Adams, Abigail. Letter to John Adams. Written 27 November 1775. http://inthewordsofwomen.com/?cat=60&paged=9.
Adams, Abigail. Letter to Thomas Jefferson. Written 29 January 1787. http://inthewordsofwomen.com/?cat=60&paged=8
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Lewis, Jan E. “A Revolution for Whom? Women in the Era of the American Revolution.” In A Companion to American Women’s History, edited by Nancy A. Hewitt, 83-99. Malden: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2002.
Murray, Judith Sargent. “On the Equality of the Sexes.” The Massachusetts Magazine, March-April 1790.
Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980.
Steele, Brian. “Thomas Jefferson’s Gender Frontier.” The Journal of American History 95, no. 1 (June 2008): 17-42. JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25095463.
Warren, Mercy O. Observations on the New Constitution and on the Federal and State Conventions. Boston: 1788.
Zagarri, Rosemarie. “The Rights of Man and Woman in Post-Revolutionary America.” The William and Mary Quarterly 55, no. 2 (April 1998): 203-230. JSTOR. https://doi.org/10.2307/2674382.
New Jersey
Lewis, Jan E. “A Revolution for Whom? Women in the Era of the American Revolution.” In A Companion to American Women’s History, edited by Nancy A. Hewitt, 83-99. Malden: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2002.
Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980.
Abigail Smith Adams
Adams, Abigail. Letter to John Adams. Written 27 November 1775. http://inthewordsofwomen.com/?cat=60&paged=9.
Adams, Abigail. Letter to John Adams. Written 13 February 1797. http://inthewordsofwomen.com/?cat=60&paged=10
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Garbaye, Linda. “Women and Politics in North America: The Experience of Abigail Adams.” Nuevo Mundo (August 4, 2014).
Hicks, Philip. “Portia and Marcia: Female Political Identity and the Historical Imagination, 1770-1800.” The William and Mary Quarterly 62, no. 2 (April 2005): 265-294. JSTOR. https://doi.org/10.2307/3491602.
Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980.
Shields, David S. and Fredrika J. Tuete. “The Court of Abigail Adams.” Journal of the Early Republic 35, no. 2 (Summer 2015): 227-235. Project Muse. https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2015.0020.
Zagarri, Rosemarie. “The Rights of Man and Woman in Post-Revolutionary America.” The William and Mary Quarterly 55, no. 2 (April 1998): 203-230. JSTOR. https://doi.org/10.2307/2674382.
Sarah Franklin Bache
Arendt, Emily. “’Ladies Going about for Money’: Female Voluntary Associations and Civic Consciousness in the American Revolution.” Journal of the Early Republic 34 (Summer 2014): 157-186.
Baetjer, Katharine. “Benjamin Franklin’s Daughter.” Metropolitan Museum Journal 38 (2003): 169-181. JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1513106
Conger, Vivian B. “Reading Early American Women’s Political Lives: The Revolutionary Performances of Deborah Read Franklin and Sally Franklin Bache.” Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 16, no. 2 (Spring 2018): 317-352. Project MUSE. https://doi.org/10.1353/earn.2013.0011.
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Sarah Livingston Jay
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Jay, Sarah L. Letter to John Jay. 25 October 1792. http://inthewordsofwomen.com/?cat=129&paged=4.
Jay, Sarah L. Letter to John Jay. 25 October 1794. http://inthewordsofwomen.com/?cat=129&paged=4.
Kerber, Linda K. Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America. Columbia: University of North Carolina Press, 1980. ProQuest Ebook Central.
Littlefield, Daniel C. “John Jay, the Revolutionary Generation, and Slavery.” New York History 81, no. 1 (January 2000): 91-132. JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23181809
Pencak, William. “‘Faithful Portraits of Our Hearts’: Images of the Jay Family, 1725-1814.” Early American Studies 7, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 82-108. JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23546556.
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Judith Sargent Murray
Cheek, Madelon. “‘An Inestimable Prize,’ Educating Women in the New Republic: The Writings of Judith Sargent Murray. Journal of Thought 20, no.3 (Fall 1985): 250-262. JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42589169.
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Murray, Judith S. S. Letter. Written 1790. http://inthewordsofwomen.com/?cat=382.
Murray, Judith Sargent. “On the Equality of the Sexes.” The Massachusetts Magazine, March-April 1790.
Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980.
Schiff, Karen L. “Objects of Speculation: Early Manuscripts on Women and Education by Judith Sargent (Stevens) Murray.” Legacy 17, no. 2 (2000): 213-228. Project Muse. Https://doi.org/10.1353/leg.2000.0013.
Zagarri, Rosemarie. “The Rights of Man and Woman in Post-Revolutionary America.” The William and Mary Quarterly 55, no. 2 (April 1998): 203-230. JSTOR. https://doi.org/10.2307/2674382.
Esther DeBerdt Reed
Arendt, Emily. “’Ladies Going about for Money’: Female Voluntary Associations and Civic Consciousness in the American Revolution.” Journal of the Early Republic 34 (Summer 2014): 157-186.
Broadsides, Leaflets, and Pamphlets from America and Europe. Library of Congress Archives.
Harkins, Kennedy. “Esther Reed’s Political Sentiments and Rhetoric During the Revolutionary War.” The Pegasus Review: University of Central Florida Undergraduate Research Journal 10, no. 1 (15 November 2018): 47-59.
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Reed, Esther D. Letter to Dennis DeBerdt. 8 September 1775. http://inthewordsofwomen.com/?cat=279&paged=2
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Mercy Otis Warren
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Cohen, Lester H. “Mercy Otis Warren: The Politics of Language and the Aesthetics of Self.” American Quarterly 35, no. 5 (Winter 1983): 481-498. JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2712812.
Garbaye, Linda. “Women and Politics in North America: The Experience of Abigail Adams.” Nuevo Mundo (August 4, 2014).
Hicks, Philip. “Portia and Marcia: Female Political Identity and the Historical Imagination, 1770-1800.” The William and Mary Quarterly 62, no. 2 (April 2005): 265-294. JSTOR. https://doi.org/10.2307/3491602.
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Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980.
Sarkela, Sandra J. “Freedom’s Call: The Persuasive Power of Mercy Otis Warren’s Dramatic Sketches, 1772-1775.” Early American Literature 44, no. 3 (541-568).
Warren, Mercy O. The Adulateur: A Tragedy as it is now acted in Upper Servia. Boston: 1773.
Warren, Mercy O. 1805. Excerpt from History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American American Revolution, Vol. 3. http://inthewordsofwomen.com/?cat=202&paged=4.
Warren, Mercy O. 1774. Letter to Hannah Winthrop. Written January 1774. http://inthewordsofwomen.com/?cat=202&paged=2.
Warren, Mercy O. Observations on the New Constitution and on the Federal and State Conventions. Boston: 1788.
Women in the Revolution: Politics 