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The Women Of The House: How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty

Autor Jean Zimmerman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 aug 2007
The remarkable Margaret Hardenbroeck Philipse arrived in New Amsterdam from Holland in 1659, a brash and ambitious twenty-two-year-old bent on making her way in the New World. She promptly built an empire of trading ships, furs, and real estate that included all of Westchester County. The Dutch called such women "she-merchants," and Margaret became the wealthiest in the colony, while raising five children and keeping a spotless linen closet.

Zimmerman deftly traces the astonishing rise of Margaret and the Philipse women who followed her, who would transform Margaret’s storehouse on the banks of the Hudson into a veritable mansion, Philipse Manor Hall. The last Philipse to live there, Mary Philipse Morris—the It-girl of mid-1700s New York—was even courted by George Washington. But privilege couldn’t shelter the family from the Revolution, which raged on Mary’s doorstep.



Mining extensive primary sources, Zimmerman brings us into the parlors, bedrooms, countinghouses, and parties of early colonial America and vividly restores a forgotten group of women to life.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780156032247
ISBN-10: 0156032244
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: One 16-page black-and-white photo insert
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Mariner Books
Locul publicării:United States

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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 —

Notă biografică

Jean Zimmerman is the author of four previous books, including The Women of the House: How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune and a Dynasty. She earned an MFA in writing from the Columbia University School of the Arts and has published her poetry widely in literary magazines. She lives with her family in Westchester County, New York.