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

Book Sources: Women in the Revolution

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Courageous Children and Women of the American Revolution by John Micklos
Call Number: E276 .M53 2013
ISBN: 9780766041318

Through Primary Sources
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
Call Number: CT259 .M46 2009
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 by Carol Sue Humphrey
Call Number: E203 .H88 2003
ISBN: 0313320837

primary documents on events from 1776 to 1800
Women in the American Revolution by Jeanne Munn Bracken
Call Number: E276 .W663 1997
ISBN: 1878668730
Women Writing Home, 1700-1920: Female Correspondence Across the British Empire by Klaus Stierstorfer (General Editor)
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9781851967933

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