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The Letters of Mary Penry

A Single Moravian Woman in Early America
  • ISBN-13: 9780271081090
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Edited by Scott Paul Gordon
  • Price: AUD $54.99
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  • Local release date: 01/10/2019
  • Format: Paperback 320 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
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A collection of letters by Mary Penry (1735–1804), who immigrated to America from Wales and lived in Moravian communities for more than forty years. Offers a sustained view of the spiritual and social life of a single woman in early America.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Genealogical Charts

Editorial Note

Abbreviations

Introduction

Letters

Appendix A: Mary Penry’s Memoir

Appendix B: Mary Attwood’s Memoir

Appendix C: The Stocker and Drinker Families

Appendix D: Business Correspondence 275

Bibliography

Index



“The letters of Mary Penry provide a unique and insightful perspective on early American history. Scott Gordon has rescued this remarkable female author from obscurity in a volume that should expand the canon of American literature.”

—Craig Atwood, author of Community of the Cross: Moravian Piety in Colonial Bethlehem

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