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'The pride of womanhood all up in arms': Creating the Republican Wife & Mother

Explore the ideals and transformation of women in the late 18th century, as they embraced Republican virtue and rejected British vice. Discover the role of women as educators, the challenges of courtship, and the pursuit of simplicity, frugality, and public spirit. Portraits by John Singleton Copley and the writings of Mercy Otis Warren and Judith Sargent Murray provide insights into this period of moral and political change.

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'The pride of womanhood all up in arms': Creating the Republican Wife & Mother

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  1. 'The pride of womanhood all up in arms': Creating the Republican Wife & Mother

  2. Republican virtue • Reject British vice, corruption, extravagance • Embrace simplicity, honest frugality • Public spirit • Moral as well as political transformation • Masculine/feminine divide

  3. Copley family, 1776

  4. “Colonel Manly” the ideal republican husband

  5. Late 18th C women’s dress

  6. Beware of flatterers, fops, & coquettes

  7. Courtship: seduction as a virtue

  8. Mercy Otis Warren & Judith Sargent Murray Portraits by John Singleton Copley

  9. The Republican Mother: educate children for the republic

  10. grammar schools & “dame” schools “a pig learning his letters”

  11. Female seminary or academy

  12. Curriculum? What did women need to learn? Benjamin Rush

  13. “Bluestockings” “The Nine Living Muses of Great Britain” by Richard Samuel, 1778

  14. “Give her of the fruit of her hands and let her own work praise her in the gates”

  15. “New England Factory Life—Bell Time” by Winslow Homer

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