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Earthbound and Heavenbent by Elizabeth Pendergast Carlisle (2004, Hardcover) 
Earthbound and Heavenbent by Elizabeth Pendergast Carlisle (2004, Hardcover)

 
Earthbound and Heavenbent by Elizabeth Pendergast Carlisle (2004, Hardcover)

Author: Elizabeth Pendergast Carlisle
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication Date: 2004-03-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0743244400
ISBN-13: 9780743244404
Product ID: EPID30411031
Description: Elizabeth Porter Phelps, born in her family's Massachusetts farm in 1747, began keeping this diary just before her 16th birthday. The diary provides a unique window into what marriage, family life, illness, and travel were like during th...
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Synopsis
Elizabeth Porter Phelps, born in her family's Massachusetts farm in 1747, began keeping this diary just before her 16th birthday. The diary provides a unique window into what marriage, family life, illness, and travel were like during the colonial and pre-colonial era. Porter Phelps discusses the American Revolution and the War of 1812, which both took place during her lifetime. She also touches on the emerging influence of Calvinism in New England. With 20 B&W photographs of the Phelps's home and its furnishings.

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Publication Date:2004-03-01

Size
Length:384 pages
Height:9.0 in
Width:6.3 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:19.2 oz

Publisher's Note
A vivid, revelatory book about New England life during the years of America's foundation, EARTHBOUND AND HEAVENBENT is the compelling true story of Elizabeth Porter Phelps and the extraordinary times in which she lived.
Elizabeth Porter Phelps's life began in 1747 and spanned three wars, a major uprising, and the emergence of a nation. She spent all but her first five years at Forty Acres, her family's handsome Massachusetts home, which still stands proudly today. It was there that she grew up, married, raised children, and kept busy as the mistress of a working farm and wife of a prominent leader in the community. And all the while, she never stopped writing and recording her life in hundreds of diary entries and letters.
It is our great fortune that the invaluable collection of these papers ultimately found its way, two hundred years later, into the loving hands of scholar Elizabeth Pendergast Carlisle, who has gracefully woven them into EARTHBOUND AND HEAVENBENT. Together, Phelps's writings and Carlisle's narrative describe in riveting detail the daily rigors of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century farming, sewing, and cooking; the intimate truths of the Phelpses' personal, family, and community life; and the events, local and farther afield, that were shaping America. Ultimately, Carlisle's account, peppered with these treasured diary entries and letters, provides the reader with the full arc of Elizabeth Porter Phelps's life--from childhood to death--against the dramatic background of familiar history: the French and Indian Wars, the American Revolution, Shays Rebellion, the War of 1812.
With her thorough knowledge, research, and insight, Elizabeth Pendergast Carlisle has resurrected a rich and fascinating world and brought the Phelps family story back to vibrant life.

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