'The pride of womanhood all up in arms': Creating the Republican Wife

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'The pride of womanhood all up in arms' Creating
the Republican Wife Mother
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• Republican virtue
• Reject British vice, corruption, extravagance
• Embrace simplicity, honest frugality
• Public spirit
• Moral as well as political transformation
• Masculine/feminine divide

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Copley family, 1776
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Colonel Manly the ideal republican husband
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Late 18th C womens dress
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Beware of flatterers, fops, coquettes
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Courtship seduction as a virtue
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Mercy Otis Warren Judith Sargent
Murray Portraits by John Singleton Copley
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The Republican Mother educate children for the
republic
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grammar schools dame schools
a pig learning his letters
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Female seminary or academy
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Curriculum? What did women need to learn?
Benjamin Rush
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Bluestockings
The Nine Living Muses of Great Britain by
Richard Samuel, 1778
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Give her of the fruit of her hands and let her
own work praise her in the gates
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New England Factory LifeBell Time
by Winslow Homer