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The Origins of Women's Activism: New York and Boston, 1797–1840. By Anne M. Boylan. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xvi, 343 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2730-4. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5404-2.)
On a January day in 1839, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, the widow of Alexander Hamilton, walked into the law offices of George Templeton Strong to conduct business on behalf of the New York Orphan Asylum Society. Then eighty-two, Hamilton had served on the society's board for thirty-three years. She would preside for another decade. Exceptional only in the longevity of her participation, Hamilton's career modeled one woman's engagement with a female voluntary association. Numbering in the hundreds, religious, benevolent, charitable, mutual aid, and reform organizations launched America's women into public life. . . .
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