![]() Achieving a remarkable comprehensiveness, it describes women's participation in the war, evaluates changes in their education in the late eighteenth century, describes the novels and histories women read and wrote, and analyzes their status in law and society. Women of the Republic is the result of a seven-year search for women's diaries, letters, and legal records. "I have Don as much to Carrey on the warr as maney that Sett Now at the healm of government," wrote one impoverished woman, and she was right. Recruiters, whether patriot or tory, found men more willing to join the army when their wives and daughters could be counted on to keep the farms in operation and to resist enchroachment from squatters. Civilian women were spies, fund raisers, innkeepers, suppliers of food and clothing. The "women of the army" toiled in army hospitals, kitchens, and laundries. ![]() ![]() Previous histories have rarely recognized that the battle for independence was also a woman's war. Women of the Republic views the American Revolution through women's eyes. ![]()
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