| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Book Review

Memory's Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America. By Susan M. Stabile. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. xvi, 284 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-8014-4031-9.)

In Memory's Daughters, Susan M. Stabile examines women's domestic material culture as evidence for genealogy as "rhetorical practice" (p. 5), the house and the female mind as the "site of memory, history and knowledge" (pp. 9–10), and women as central to early national history. The author studies the five female members of an intergenerational literary salon that was active in the Delaware Valley from 1760 to 1840. Stabile uses their commonplace books of poetry, as well as other domestic arts such as miniature shell constructions, hair jewelry, portrait miniatures, and material culture related to mourning rites, as samples of women's archival and expressive roles in history keeping.

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