LibGuides: Primary Sources: American Women: Revolution

Online Sources: Women in the Revolution

The Sentiments of an American Woman
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On the commencement of actual war, the women of America manifested a firm resolution to contribute as much as could depend on them, to the deliverance of their country.
Part of An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
Women in South Carolina Experience Occupation, 1780
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"The British faced the difficult task of fighting a war without pushing more colonists into the hands of the revolutionaries. As a result, the Revolutionary War included little direct attacks on civilians, but that does not mean that civilians did not suffer. The following account from Eliza Wilkinson describes the stress faced by non-combatants who had to face the British army."

Book Sources: Women in the Revolution

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Courageous Children and Women of the American Revolution: Through Primary Sources by John Micklos
Call Number: E276 .M53 2013

ISBN: 9780766041318
Grace Barclay's Diary by Sidney Barclay, editor
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

or, Personal Recollections of the American Revolution

"The writer of these letters, and this diary, was the wife of an officer of the revolution, and the daughter of a clergyman of the Church of England"--Pref., p. 13.
Liberty's Daughters by Mary Beth Norton
Call Number: HQ1418.N886 L6

ISBN: 0316612510

The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800
Memoirs of Mrs. Coghlan by Mrs. Coghlan
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

(daughter of the late Major Moncrieffe) written by herself, and dedicated to the British nation; being interspersed with anecdotes of the late American and present French war, with remarks moral and political
Memories of Carolinian Immigrants by Andreas Lixl
ISBN: 0761844147

Autobiographies, Diaries, and Letters from Colonial Times to the Present
Private Journal, kept during a portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister by Margaret (Hill) Morris
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
The Diary of Hannah Callender Sansom by Hannah Callender Sansom
Call Number: F158.9.F89 S26 2010

ISBN: 0801447844

"... this assertive, outspoken woman described her life and her society in a diary kept intermittently from the time she was twenty-one years old in 1758 through the birth of her first grandchild in 1788."
The Revolutionary Era: Primary Documents on Events from 1776 to 1800 by Carol Sue Humphrey
ISBN: 0313320837
Women in the American Revolution by Jeanne M. Bracken (Editor)
Call Number: E276 .W663 1997

ISBN: 1878668730
Women Writing Home, 1700-1920: Female Correspondence Across the British Empire by Klaus Stierstorfer (General Editor)
Call Number: Online - Ebook Central

ISBN: 9781851967933

Volume 1. Africa -- Volume 2. Australia -- Volume 3. Canada -- Volume 4. India -- Volume 5. New Zealand -- Volume 6. USA.

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