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By God's grace and the needle: The life and labors of Mercy Jane Bancroft Blair.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	By God's grace and the needle: The life and labors of Mercy Jane Bancroft Blair./
Author:	Jurgena, Melissa Stewart.
Description:	211 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-02, Section: A, page: 0690.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-02A.
Subject:	Biography. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3208049
ISBN:	9780542561160

By God's grace and the needle: The life and labors of Mercy Jane Bancroft Blair.
Jurgena, Melissa Stewart.

By God's grace and the needle: The life and labors of Mercy Jane Bancroft Blair. - 211 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-02, Section: A, page: 0690.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2006.

Much of our history is based on public documents dealing with influential political and military figures. But recent scholarship has shown how private sources and previously unexamined material culture can shed new light on the lives of ordinary people. This dissertation centers on one of those unusual finds, a set of nineteenth century diaries, which span a forty-year period. It focuses on the life of their author, Mercy Jane Bancroft Blair, her work, and her contributions to her family and community. Mercy was a traveling dressmaker, quilter, and weaver who kept a daily record of her work and pay, her many visits and visitors, and her devoted religious activities from 1859-1900. Her life is less eventful than some of her better known contemporaries, but no less important in its ability to offer a fuller picture of the lives of rural American women. Mercy's working class existence makes her life all the more valuable for scholars of women's history.

ISBN: 9780542561160Subjects--Topical Terms:

531296
Biography.

By God's grace and the needle: The life and labors of Mercy Jane Bancroft Blair.
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