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- ISBN
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- Book Title
- Women of the House : How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Women, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Historical
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- 5.3 in
- Item Weight
- 12 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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The remarkable Margaret Hardenbroeck Philipse arrived in New Amsterdam from Holland in 1659, and promptly built an empire of trading ships, furs, and real estate. Zimmerman deftly traces the astonishing rise of Margaret and the Philipse women who followed her.
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HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0156032244
ISBN-13
9780156032247
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Book Title
Women of the House : How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Women, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Historical
Publication Year
2007
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
400 Pages
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Item Length
8 in
Item Height
0 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Item Weight
12 Oz
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PRAISE FOR THE WOMEN OF THE HOUSE "Ms. Zimmerman is a vivid writer . . . The way the world of colonial America looked, smelled, and sounded is beautifully evoked and based on extensive and shrewd historical research . . . Zimmerman's sumptuous descriptions of social history and environment never flag."--THE NEW YORK SUN, In 1659, 22-year-old Margaret Hardenbroeck arrived in New Amsterdam as a highly independent, unattached "she-merchant" who collected debts from a Dutch cousin's customers and sought out buyers for European merchandise. When she died three decades later, Margaret was an enormously rich, twice-married mother of five with a real estate empire stretching from Westchester and New Jersey to Barbados and a fleet of trading ships trafficking in slaves, furs, tobacco, textiles and molasses. Zimmerman's ( Made from Scratch: Reclaiming the Pleasures of the American Hearth ) prodigious research unearths a mother lode of data on colonial American women, from the differences in Dutch and English inheritance laws to the fact that wealthy female colonists eschewed underpants and menstruated into exquisite handcrafted gowns. This rich history loses some momentum when the spotlight shifts from the feisty Margaret and her bustling Manhattan milieu to minibiographies of those women who followed in her wake on her Westchester estate. Her husband's pious second wife, Catherine, built a church; granddaughter-in-law Joanna was a socialite political wife whose privileged realm was rocked by an alleged slave revolt; and Joanna's daughter Mary rejected George Washington for a Tory soldier., PRAISE FOR THE WOMEN OF THE HOUSE "Ms. Zimmerman is a vivid writer . . . The way the world of colonial America looked, smelled, and sounded is beautifully evoked and based on extensive and shrewd historical research . . . Zimmerman'e(tm)s sumptuous descriptions of social history and environment never flag."'e"THE NEW YORK SUN, PRAISE FOR THE WOMEN OF THE HOUSE"Ms. Zimmerman is a vivid writer . . . The way the world of colonial America looked, smelled, and sounded is beautifully evoked and based on extensive and shrewd historical research . . . Zimmerman's sumptuous descriptions of social history and environment never flag."--THE NEW YORK SUN, At the time of her death, in 1691, Margaret Hardenbroeck was reputedly the richest woman in the English province of New York. Over the course of the 30 years since she had immigrated to colonial New Amsterdam as a self-sufficient young Dutch maiden determined to carve out a place for herself in the New World, she had amassed an impressive fortune, operated a thriving business as a fur trader, assembled a fleet of sailing vessels, built an impressive real-estate portfolio, and earned a well-deserved reputation as a shrewd she-merchant. Margaret's most important legacy, however, was the example she set for the generations of female descendents who followed in her remarkably independent footsteps. This extraordinary story of an American dynasty founded and perpetuated by women will be a valuable addition to both colonial and women's history collections., PRAISE FOR THE WOMEN OF THE HOUSE "Ms. Zimmerman is a vivid writer . . . The way the world of colonial America looked, smelled, and sounded is beautifully evoked and based on extensive and shrewd historical research . . . Zimmerman's sumptuous descriptions of social history and environment never flag."-THE NEW YORK SUN, In 1659, 22-year-old Margaret Hardenbroeck arrived in New Amsterdam as a highly independent, unattached "she-merchant" who collected debts from a Dutch cousin's customers and sought out buyers for European merchandise. When she died three decades later, Margaret was an enormously rich, twice-married mother of five with a real estate empire stretching from Westchester and New Jersey to Barbados and a fleet of trading ships trafficking in slaves, furs, tobacco, textiles and molasses. Zimmerman's (Made from Scratch: Reclaiming the Pleasures of the American Hearth) prodigious research unearths a mother lode of data on colonial American women, from the differences in Dutch and English inheritance laws to the fact that wealthy female colonists eschewed underpants and menstruated into exquisite handcrafted gowns. This rich history loses some momentum when the spotlight shifts from the feisty Margaret and her bustling Manhattan milieu to minibiographies of those women who followed in her wake on her Westchester estate. Her husband's pious second wife, Catherine, built a church; granddaughter-in-law Joanna was a socialite political wife whose privileged realm was rocked by an alleged slave revolt; and Joanna's daughter Mary rejected George Washington for a Tory soldier., PRAISE FOR THE WOMEN OF THE HOUSE "Ms. Zimmerman is a vivid writer . . . The way the world of colonial America looked, smelled, and sounded is beautifully evoked and based on extensive and shrewd historical research . . . Zimmerman's sumptuous descriptions of social history and environment never flag."--THE NEW YORK SUN --, PRAISE FOR THE WOMEN OF THE HOUSE"Ms. Zimmerman is a vivid writer . . . The way the world of colonial America looked, smelled, and sounded is beautifully evoked and based on extensive and shrewd historical research . . . Zimmerman's sumptuous descriptions of social history and environment never flag."—THE NEW YORK SUN
Table of Content
Contents Prologue: 1685 ix Part One 1659-1691: Margaret 1 Her New World 3 2 A Map of Manhattan 14 3 Wild Diamonds 35 4 A Wedding, a Child, and a Funeral on the Ditch 50 5 Education of a She-Merchant 73 6 A Marriage of Love and Trade 85 7 The Superior Authority Over Both Ship and Cargo 100 8 The House Margaret Built 127 9 A Surfeit of Sugar 147 Part Two 1692-1783: Catherine, Joanna, Mary 10 The Church of Catherine 169 11 Not Doubting of Her Care 201 12 Fashion Babies 222 13 A Hard Winter and Hell 245 14 A Castle on the Heights 277 15 Fire in the Sky 307 Afterword 339 Acknowledgments 347 Notes 349 Sources 367 Index 381
Copyright Date
2006
Dewey Decimal
974.7/1020922 B
Dewey Edition
22
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