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 July 27, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL1092.
