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9781416569640

Earthbound and Heavenbent Elizabeth Porter Phelps and Life at Forty Acres (1747-1817)

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  • ISBN13:

    9781416569640

  • ISBN10:

    1416569642

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-07-01
  • Publisher: Scribner
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $24.95

Summary

This vivid and revelatory account of 18th and early 19th-century New England is told through the life of one woman and the historic house in which she raised her family during the years of America's foundation.

Author Biography

<B>Elizabeth Pendergast Carlisle</B> graduated from Smith College in 1949 and went on to teach and receive master's degrees in English and art history, and a doctorate in museum studies. This is her first book. She lives in Leverett, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Preface
A Foundation Laid
Pleasures of the Pen
Crossing the Threshold
Conflict and Loss
A Tumultuous Time
Fostering Heirs
Some New Sorrows
""This Great Cathedral of a House""
Once Again the Pleasures of a Pen
Binding the Ties
Seeking the Celestial City
The Valley of the Shadow
Ends and Beginnings
Afterword
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
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