Open AccessNeedle, Pen, and the Social Geography of Taste in Early National Providence
Author(s) -
Kate Silbert
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the new england quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1937-2213
pISSN - 0028-4866
DOI - 10.1162/tneq_a_00733
Subject(s) - scholarship , taste , elite , reading (process) , gender studies , aesthetics , sociology , history , art , psychology , political science , law , politics , neuroscience
This essay examines needlework samplers from Mary Balch's school and diaries produced by elite young women in Providence, Rhode Island in the late eighteenth century. Drawing on scholarship on material culture, social geography, and gender, it traces the physical mobility that characterized daily life, reading and writing practices, and social boundaries in the early republic.
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