The Women of the House by Jean Zimmerman
The remarkable Margaret Hardenbroeck Philipse arrived in New Amsterdam from Holland in 1659, a brash and ambitious twenty-two-year-old bent on making her way in the New World. She promptly built an empire of trading ships, furs, and real estate that included all of Westchester County. The Dutch called such women "she-merchants," and Margaret became the wealthiest in the colony, while raising five children and keeping a spotless linen closet.Zimmerman deftly traces the astonishing rise of Margaret and the Philipse women who followed her, who would transform Margaret's storehouse on the banks of the Hudson into a veritable mansion, Philipse Manor Hall. The last Philipse to live there, Mary Philipse Morris--the It-girl of mid-1700s New York--was even courted by George Washington. But privilege couldn't shelter the family from the Revolution, which raged on Mary's doorstep.
Mining extensive primary sources, Zimmerman brings us into the parlors, bedrooms, countinghouses, and parties of early colonial America and vividly restores a forgotten group of women to life.
Jean Zimmerman is the author of The Orphanmaster, her first novel. Love, Fiercely: A Gilded Age Romance; The Ladies of the House: How a Colonial She-Merchant Created a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty; and Tailspin: Women at War in the Wake of Tailhook are among Jean's nonfiction works concentrating on the changing status of women in America. Jean is the coauthor of Breaking with Tradition: Women and Work, the New Facts of Life, as well as Raising Our Athletic Daughters: How Sports Can Develop Self-Esteem and Preserve Girls' Lives, which she coauthored with her husband, Gil Reavill. Zimmerman resides in Westchester County, New York, with her family.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780156032247 |
| ISBN 10 | 0156032244 |
| Title | The Women of the House |
| Author | Jean Zimmerman |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Mariner Books |
| Year published | 2007-08-06 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
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