Marriage in the Early Republic: Elizabeth and William Wirt and the Companionate Ideal
(Part of the Gender Relations in the American Experience Series)
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William Wirt practiced law in Virginia and Maryland in the early national period and served as attorney general under James Monroe and John Quincy Adams. Elizabeth Wirt managed the household and cared for the Wirts' large family during her husband's frequent work-related absences. For more than three decades, the couple struggled to reconcile different daily pursuits with a commitment to marriage as a partnership of equals. In Marriage in the...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0801871107
ISBN13:9780801871108
Release Date:May 2002
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Length:232 Pages
Weight:0.76 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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