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“Something untoward was happening to middle-class American women, an undercurrent of i change was seeping through heir ideas about duties and obligations as mothers, eroding their desire to conform to madonna-like models of unconditional devotion to the young child to adapt a more managerial concept of mother as coordinator and motivator of her child's activities and interests.”

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Book:Mother Mirror: How a Generation of Women Is Changing Motherhood in America
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“Boston lay in shambles. During the winter months, shivering redcoats had chopped down trees in the Common and ripped apart old buildings for firewood. The Flucker mansion had been looted. Other homes and shops were abandoned, crumbling, ruinous reminders of Boston's pre-Revolutionary splendor.”

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Book:Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married
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“In late summer, when sprays of purple loosestrife, goldenrod, and ripening cranberries burst into color along the old road cutting through the Great Marsh of West Barnstable on Cape Cod, the air vibrated with the drumbeat of cicadas, the caws of seagulls and geese.”

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Book:The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation
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“While trances had long been associated with biblical figures and medieval saints, American audiences of this era had become familiar with a new type of dream state, the mesmeric or hypnotic trance first noted by the eighteenth century Austrian doctor Friedrich Anton Mesmer.”

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Book:Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married
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“On April 30 Lucy cheerfully reported that, after three days' illness, she was on the mend. Although she had no mirror, she could feel twenty pockmarks on her face. 'I am almost glad you do not see it.," she wrote, "I don't believe I should get one kiss and yet the doctor tells me it is very becoming.”

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Book:Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married
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“While Mar-A-Lago was later categorized as an example of Hispano-Mooresque architecture because of its stucco exterior, antique tile embellishments, rambling outbuildings and red-tiled roof, the estate was actually a carefully crafted amalgam of architectural styles blended together to display the most admirable features of several European countries.”

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Book:American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post
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“Remarkable as Mar-A-Lago was, the estate had created strains in Marjorie's marriage, which, coupled with her plea to buy the Birdseye company, were leading E.F. to disapprove of his wife's spending habits. When acquaintances expressed their their fascination with his new Palm Beach home, the stockbroker often shrugged cynically. 'You know Marjorie said she was going to built a little cottage by the sea. Look what we got!" t h”

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Book:American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post
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“The divorce was a blow to Marjorie's pride from which she would never fully recover. Despite her beauty, brains, and wealth, Marjorie never had a marriage that remained happy for very long. Once, General Foods chairman Clare Francis asked her about them outright. 'Marjorie, you could run General Motors. you could run U.S. Steel. You're the smartest woman I know.But why do you have so much trouble with husbands? 'Clare, I honestly don't know. Ain't it hell?'Marjorie said and shrugged her shoulders.”

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Book:American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post
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“Swept along by the religious revivalism known as America's Great Awakening, scores of charismatic preachers had descended upon the communities surrounding the Erie Canal to win the souls of its citizens and convert them to a variety of evangelical and radical sects.”

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Book:The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox
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“American spiritualism -- a movement that at its peak claimed more than a million followers -- was born out of the basic human longing for contact with a loved one lost to death. but to literalists, spiritualism's true spark came in 1848 from something no more or less powerful than a bored teenage girl.”

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Book:The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox
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