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...ability to create fabrics gave some women an outlet for artistic sensibilities or a space on which to inscribe ownership of moveable property,” wrote Ulrich in the e-mail...
...Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812, have set a standard of readability as well as scholarship. A Midwife’s Tale earned a Pulitzer Prize in history and was crafted into a documentary. With The Age of Homsepun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth, Ulrich is back with another study of life in colonial New England that is destined to become a classic as well...
...Homespun, Ulrich studies what 11 objects from colonial everyday life have to say not only about their owners but also about the development of an American icon—the home-based rural economy in which virtuous women spun clothes and household linens while virtuous men tilled the soil. Each object—from an Indian basket dating from 1676 to an unfinished stocking of 1837—was specially chosen for its particular ability to flesh out the romanticized notion of “the age of homespun” that Horace Bushnell coined during the centennial celebration...
...looked at hundreds of objects in the course of my research for the book,” Ulrich said in an e-mail. “The ones I chose all raised larger questions central to my project—usually questions about boundaries, boundaries between Indians and colonists, rural and urban, plain work and fancy work, or commercial and homemade...
...part, Ulrich is hopeful. “Material things will still be important, which is why curators at places like the Smithsonian are busy collecting contemporary objects. I recently saw in storage there a set of pacemakers in various sizes showing the evolution of that technology—and similar collections of birth-control pills, tampons, and soap!,” she wrote...