| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Karin Wulf. Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2000. Pp. xvii, 217. $39.95.

Karin Wulf has added to the literature on women in the colonial Mid-Atlantic with her well-written study of single women in Philadelphia, the largest city in eighteenth-century British North America. She argues persuasively that historians have tended to equate womanhood with married womanhood. Many women in colonial Philadelphia were single, and their experiences were informed by the autonomy that their status implied. Wulf contends that to see opportunity in single life is not to discount the real disadvantages of this status for women. Peculiar to the Philadelphia narrative was the Quaker and even the Moravian influence. These traditions presented other options for women anxious to forgo the rigors of marriage. Finally, Wulf argues that a large number of single women in the Quaker city had an effect on the urban environment as much as the city had its effect on them. Over time, female options and independence waned as the late eighteenth century saw the decline of Quaker influence in Philadelphia society. . . .

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