| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.2

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Susan M. Stabile. Memory's Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2004. Pp. xiii, 284. $39.95.

This book is a study of the "memory practices" that flourished among a coterie of educated, elite women from the Delaware River Valley—Elizabeth Fergusson, Hannah Griffitts, Deborah Logan, Annis Stockton, and Susanna Wright—between about 1760 and 1840. Under a regime in which men were accorded superior mental abilities and women were associated with feeling, the only kind of knowledge conceded to women was memory. Of course, men had their own style of memory, too, but whereas this public memory stressed shared origins, universal meanings, and continuity with the past and future, domestic memory took on the character of genealogy: local, particular, ahistorical, and materially inhabiting the physical space of the home. The first was appropriately embodied in print; the second, in the private world of scribal publication, here epitomized in the commonplace books, letters, and thousands of poems circulated among the five women. Public memory has long overshadowed domestic memory, Susan M. Stabile contends, and it is her project to recuperate the latter, the better "to place women at the center rather than the margins of early national history" (p. 9).

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