One Colonial Woman's World: The Life and Writings of Mehetabel Chandler Coit
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2012. Hardcover. Blue & maroon & tan & illus. boards, 255 pp., 14 BW illus. VG, Like New. Item #136431
ISBN: 9781558499669
"Reconstructs the life of Mehetabel Chandler Coit (1673 1758), the author of what may be the earliest surviving diary by an American woman. A native of Roxbury, Massachusetts, who later moved to Connecticut, she began her diary at the age of fifteen and kept it intermittently until she was well into her seventies. A previously overlooked resource, the diary contains entries on a broad range of topics as well as poems, recipes, folk and herbal medical remedies, religious meditations, and financial accounts. An extensive collection of letters by Coit and her female relatives has also survived, shedding further light on her experiences." (back cover).
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