HST 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Susanna Rowson, Charlotte Temple, 18 Months
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Social democratization: people taking charge of their own [social] lives. Much better rate: what happens is that there isnt much of a life in farm lands for children and family. Books: becoming much more popular, wealthy women getting together in literary societies because they"re. William byrd: has right to be wealthy because he has mastery (flashback) Clergy men not getting life that they used to: land, money, etc. For men, the books were biographies, mason weems: mason weems writes about george washington"s life. Story about george, cuts down cherry tree when father says not to- he never did this in his life, mason weems created this; shows george was honest. Silver $ and george threw the silver dollar across the pentomic; shows he is. Strong, fake though made up by mason weems. Made up stories because it would make him money, idea of this is independence, because it is your right as an american.
