An Extraordinary Ordinary Woman: The Journal of Phebe Orvis, 1820–1830
- Author
- Susan M. Ouellette
- Content
- v + 380 pp., ill., bibl., index
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Albany: Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press
- Description
- Includes essays about Phebe Orvis and the national climate of the period and a transcript of the detailed journal of this 19-year-old Quaker from Vermont who financed her education at the Middlebury Female Seminary through textile work, got married, and staked a claim on a homestead in Upstate New York.
- Main subject
- Autobiography and Biography
History - ISBN
- 9781438464961 (pap.); 9781438464978 (ebook)
- Citation
- Ouellette, Susan M. An Extraordinary Ordinary Woman: The Journal of Phebe Orvis, 1820–1830. Albany: Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, 2017. Sylvia. Accessed August 13, 2022. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL1092.
- Updated
- 07-25-2022