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1 The Children’s Magazine, Hudson and Goodwin, Hartford, CT, January 1789, 21. Italics appear in original. All grammar and spelling hereafter is exact except f’s have been substituted with s’s where applicable.
2 The Children’s Magazine, January 1789, 21.
3 I am using middling to refer to youths of some means, who would be part of the rising merchant or professional families in Boston or Hartford.
4 On education see Cathy Davidson, Revolution and the Word (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986) and Edmund Morgan, The Gentle Puritan: A Life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962) and on voting changes see Chilton Williamson, American Suffrage from Property to Democracy, 1760-1860. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960),
5 On economic development see Winifred Barr Rothenberg, From Market-Places to a Market Economy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992) and Douglass C. North, The Economic Growth of the United States 1790-1860 (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1966) for an explanation of this process in England see Margaret Hunt, The Middling Sort (Berkeley: University of CA Press, 1996).
6 On the diffusion of information in late 18th century New England see Richard Brown, Knowledge is Power (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).
7 The Gentlemen’s and Ladies’ Town and Country Magazine, December 1789, Boston.
8 See Margaret Hunt, The Middling Sort.
9 The Children’s Magazine, January 1789, iii. Italics in the original.
10 Ibid., iv.
11 Ibid., 29.
12 Ibid., 35.
13 Ibid., 45.
14 On the medical profession see Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Good Wives (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980) and for evangelicalism and gender see Susan Juster, Disorderly Women (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994).
15 The Children’s Magazine, March 1789, 105.
16 Ibid., 105.
17 Ruth H. Bloch, "The Gendered Meaning of Virtue in Revolutionary America." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 13, (1987).
18 Gentlemen’s and Ladies’ Town and Country Magazine, April 1789, 149.
19 Gentlemen’s and Ladies’ Town and Country Magazine, November 1789, 511.
20 Ibid., 510.
21 See Jan Lewis "The Republican Wife: Virtue and Seduction in the Early Republic." William and Mary Quarterly, vol. XLIV, (1987). and Nancy F. Cott, The Bonds of Womanhood, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977).
22 The Children’s Magazine, January 1789, 17. Italics in original.
23 Ibid., 17.
24 The Children’s Magazine, April 1789, 185. Italics in original.
25 Ibid., 185.
26 The Children’s Magazine, March 1789, 129.
27 See Jay Fliegelman, Prodigals and Pilgrims (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982) and Philip Greven, The Protestant Temperament (New York: New America Library, 1977).
28 Gentlemen’s and Ladies’ Town and Country Magazine, February 1789, 48.
29 Ibid., 48.
30 The Gentlemen’s and Ladies’ Town and Country Magazine, March 1789, 85.
31 The Gentlemen’s and Ladies’ Town and Country Magazine, February, March, and April, 1789.
32 The Gentlemen’s and Ladies’ Town and Country Magazine, April, 1789, 146.
33 The Gentlemen’s and Ladies’ Town and Country Magazine, February 1789, 47.
34 Ibid., 19.
35 Ibid., 20.
36 Ibid., 13.
37 Ibid., 13.
38 Not all marriages of the period were peaceful affairs, see Ann Taves, ed. Religion and Domestic Violence in Early New England (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1989).
39 The Gentlemen’s and Ladies’ Town and Country Magazine, February 1789, 13.
40 Ibid., 12-13.
41 See Jay Fliegelman, Prodigals and Pilgrims and Philip Greven, The Protestant Temperament.
42 The Children’s Magazine, January 1789, 39.
43 The Gentlemen’s and Ladies’ Town and Country Magazine, July 1789, 304.
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