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Earthbound and Heavenbent : Elizabeth Porter Phelps and Life at Forty Acres (1747-1817) by Elizabeth Pendergast Carlisle (2007, Hardcover)

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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 -- and with twenty black-and-white photos of the house and its furnishings -- Elizabeth Pendergast Carlisle has resurrected a rich and fascinating world and brought the Phelps family story back to vibrant life. In the tradition of the bestseller A Midwife's Tale , Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's look at eighteenth-century New England social history, Earthbound and Heavenbent makes American history vivid and accessible through the intimate details of a real woman's life.

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Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
1416569642
ISBN-13
9781416569640
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Earthbound and Heavenbent : Elizabeth Porter Phelps and Life at Forty Acres (1747-1817)
Author
Elizabeth Pendergast Carlisle
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), General, Women's Studies, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
2007
Genre
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
384 Pages

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9in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
14.8 Oz

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Debra ReidDepartment of History, Eastern Illinois UniversityA real-life drama,Earthbound and Heavenbentadds measurably to our understanding of the trials and tribulations and pleasure and pain that women experienced during the colonial, Revolutionary, and early national periods. Few families create such gifts for future scholars, but Carlisle's analysis of the Phelpses helps a new generation comprehend the myriad concerns that troubled this family two hundred years ago, and the things that gave them comfort and consolation. The timelessness of human concerns rings out., Helen Bryan author of Martha Washington: First Lady of Liberty A richly detailed and splendidly readable chronicle of a family, a homestead, and a community in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Massachusetts. Carlisle has created a masterful reconstruction of early American life in the period of the American Revolution and its aftermath. This remarkable story links the lives of ordinary people and their daily concerns with the wider political developments of the period, and enriches our collective understanding of America's history and its foremothers., Debra Reid Department of History, Eastern Illinois University A real-life drama, Earthbound and Heavenbent adds measurably to our understanding of the trials and tribulations and pleasure and pain that women experienced during the colonial, Revolutionary, and early national periods. Few families create such gifts for future scholars, but Carlisle's analysis of the Phelpses helps a new generation comprehend the myriad concerns that troubled this family two hundred years ago, and the things that gave them comfort and consolation. The timelessness of human concerns rings out., Helen Bryanauthor ofMartha Washington: First Lady of LibertyA richly detailed and splendidly readable chronicle of a family, a homestead, and a community in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Massachusetts. Carlisle has created a masterful reconstruction of early American life in the period of the American Revolution and its aftermath. This remarkable story links the lives of ordinary people and their daily concerns with the wider political developments of the period, and enriches our collective understanding of America's history and its foremothers.
Table of Content
Contents Preface I. A Foundation Laid II. Pleasures of the Pen III. Crossing the Threshold IV. Conflict and Loss V. A Tumultuous Time VI. Fostering Heirs VII. Some New Sorrows VIII. "This Great Cathedral of a House" IX. Once Again the Pleasures of a Pen X. Binding the Ties XI. Seeking the Celestial City XII. The Valley of the Shadow XIII. Ends and Beginnings Afterword Endnotes Bibliography Index
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