Annotated Bibliography

I have annotated only those sources which I did not cite in my paper.

Eve’s Eaves: Domestic Architecture as a Mirror for Women’s Changing Roles in the New Republic, 1790-1840

Annotated Bibliography

Culley, Margo. “’I Look at Me’: Self as Subject in the Diaries of American Women.” Women’s

            Studies Quarterly, 17.3/4. Women’s Nontraditional Literature, 1889, 15-22. Web.

            06/10/2011.*

Earle, Alice Morse. Home Life In Colonial Days. USA: ReadaClassic.com, 2009. Print.*

Glassie, Henry. Folk Housing in Middle Virginia. Knoxville: The U of Tennessee P, 1975. Print.

Glassie provides an analytical history of folk housing in Middle Virginia, including much technical language and measurement that would be of interest to architects. He provides hand drawn flow charts, tables, and floor plans to supplement his writing, but to the non-architect reader these often serve to confuse rather than elucidate the text. His organization is by theme, sometimes in terms of structure and other times in terms of approach, rather than chronological, making this text impractical for the purpose of my paper.

Greenberg, Joshua R. Advocating the Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in

New York, 1800-1840.  0-231-50951-0. Gutenberg<e>, Columbia University Press. 2006.

http://www.gutenbert-e.org/greenberg/Chapter2JRG.html. Web. 11/24/2011.*

Handlin, David P. The American Home: Architecture and Society, 1815-1915. Boston-Toronto:

            Little, Brown, & Co., 1979. Print.

Handlin writes an extensive history of the construction of the home and its role in community and family life. He focuses on building methods, a woman’s career of housekeeping, and the context of the neighborhood. Handlin’s approach is primarily historical rather than through a cultural studies lens, and although the title states that his study begins with homes in 1815, he rarely discusses domestic architecture before 1860, and then in general terms as a bedrock for his main focus, which is 1860-1890.

Hawke, David Freeman. Everyday Life in Early America. Ed. Richard Balkin. New York:

            Perennial Library, Harper & Row, 1988. Print.

Hawke examines attitudes and practices of early American settlers. He includes discussions of class, race and gender and how these affected cultural circumstances such as town living versus farm living, access to education, and the structure of home life. Unfortunately, the scope of this work encompassed little after 1700, and was too early to be relevant to my project.

Herman, Bernard L. Town House: Architecture and Material Life in the Early American City,

1780-1830. North Carolina: The U of North Carolina P, 2005. Print.*

Kelly, Mary. “Female Academies and Seminaries and Print Culture.”*

Kelley, Mary. Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America’s

Republic. North Carolina: The U of North Carolina P, 2008. Print.*

Kimball, Fiske. Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies and of the Early Republic.

USA: Dover, 2001. Print and Web. 11/17/2011.*

Pratt, Dorothy & Richard. A Guide to Early American Homes, North. New York: Bonanza

Books, 1956. Print.

The Pratt’s Guide is meant to function as a traveler’s companion to historic New England homes. The book includes photographs, maps to, and brief histories of noteworthy houses built between the 1600’s and the 1800’s in a state-by-state format. Many of the photographs are current to the book’s publication date and therefore do not make the best primary source material for my study.

Schloesser, Pauline E. White Women and Racial Patriarchy in the Early American Republic.

            New York & London: NY U P, 2002, 31-32. Web, 11/13/2011.

Schloesser shows that women’s inheritance rights diminished over the course of the 1700’s, undermining their economic stability and validity as citizens of the new republic. She discusses the lack of protection widows had from creditors as well as the new practice of sharing equal stakes in the home with sons, which could reduce her dower considerably. Schloesser’s work echoes Bernard Herman’s much more extensive conversation about the widow’s dower, and became a source for my study guide, but I found Herman more effective for my paper.

Stabile, Susan. Memory’s Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-

Century America. New York: Cornell U P, 2004. Print.*

Sommers, Charles G. Memoir of the Reverend John Stanford, D.D., Late Chaplain to the

Humane and Criminal Institutions in the City of New York. New York: Swords, Stanford & Co., 1835. Web. 11/24/2011.

Reverend Charles Sommers wrote Memoir to reflect on the twenty-year religious and civic career of the Reverend John Stanford, collaborating with other Baptist pastors to preserve Stanford’s memory after his death. The book shows that Stanford was much more than a Humanitarian pastor to public institutions of New York. He was also a historian for the city, recording information and statistics that involved the operation and effectiveness of these institutions.

Stanford, Rev. John, M.A. Sacred Architecture; or the Design of Jehovah in Building the Temple

of Solomon: A Sermon. New York: T. & J. Swords, 1793. Early American Imprints,

Series 1: Evans, no 26201. Web.*

The Holy Bible, King James Version. New York: American Bible Society, 1999.*

Walker, Lynne. “Homemaking: An Architectural Perspective.” Signs, 27.3, 2002, 823-825. Web.

            10/23/2011.*

Wallace, Philip B. & M. Luther Miller. Colonial Houses: Philadelphia, Pre-Revolutionary

            Period. New York City: Architectural Book Publishing Co. Inc., 1931. Print.

Photographer Philip Wallace teamed with artist Luther Miller to create this coffee table style book. The work includes oversized photographs and measured drawings of several prominent homes in colonial and early republic Philadelphia, including such highlights as Graeme Park, Mount Pleasant, the Woodlands, and others. The book offers no commentary on these images, but provided a fantastic visual backdrop to my research, especially the Woodlands, which I did discuss in my project using the original floor plan image from Fiske Kimball’s published lectures.

Waterman, Thomas Tileston & John A. Barrows. Domestic Colonial Architecture of Tidewater

            Virginia. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1969. Print.

Originally published in 1932 and reprinted in 1969, Domestic includes an introduction by Fiske Kimball, professor of architecture, whose other work I rely on extensively throughout my paper. This volume, like the Kimball lectures I used, is full of wonderful primary source material and architectural profiles of various houses in Tidewater, Virginia. These are mostly colonial plantation houses, though, and incorporate the regional influences that dominated during the mid-eighteenth century before national sensibilities about architecture and gender became dominant influences.

*Primary Source cited in project