Preliminary Bibliography

Keywords

Below is an outline of headings I used in the library database to find articles for my bibliography (found using the Library of Congress Subject Headings Book):

·      PURITAN WOMEN

o   BT: Christian Women

·      PURITANS

o   BT: Church Polity

o   BT: Puritan Movements

·      CLOTHING AND DRESS

o   UF: Apparel

o   UF: Clothes

o   UF: Clothing

o   UF: Clothing and Dress, Primitive

o   UF: Dress

o   UF: Dressing (Clothing)

o   UF: Garments

o   BT: Manners and Customs

o   RT: Fashion

o   SA: Subdivisions of clothing under names of individual persons and families and under classes of persons and ethnic groups.

o   NT: Coats

o   NT: Women’s Clothing

·      WOMEN’S CLOTHING

o   UF: Women-Clothing

o   UF: Women’s Apparel

o   UF: Women’s Wear

o   BT: Clothing and Dressing

o   NT: Skirts

§  Symbolic Aspects of Women’s Clothing

·      SERMONS

o   UF: Sermons, English – United States

§  17^th Century

§  18^th Century

Key

BT=Broader Term

NT=Narrower Term

RT=Related Term

UF=Used For

Preliminary Sources

Below are my potential sources (I know some fall outside of the century and location I am studying—18^th Century America—but I may use them for support or subordinate references):

“Anecdotes of Dress.” The Literary Magazine, and American Register (1803-1807) 8.48 (1807): 118. American Periodicals. Web. 23 Sept. 2011.

Baumgarten, Linda. Colonial Williamsburg: That the Future May Learn From the Past. Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2011. Web. 7 Oct. 2011.

Bosworth, Benjamin. Signs of Apostacy Lamented. Boston: n.p., 1693. Evans Digital. Web. 4 Oct. 2011.

Branson, Susan. These Fiery Frenchified Dames: Women and Political Culture in Early National Philadelphia. Philadelphia: U Philadelphia P, 2001. Print.

“Fashion’s the Word!” The Boston Magazine, Containing a Collection of Instructive and Entertaining Essays 1 (1783): 8. American Periodicals. Web. 3 Oct. 2011.

Griffith, Mrs. “Letters Addressed to Young Women (Married or Single) by Mrs. Griffith.” The Philadelphia Minerva, Containing a Variety of Prose and Poetry. 2 (1796): 100. American Periodicals. Web. 23 Sept. 2011.

Hoop-petticoats Arraigned and Condemned by the Light of Nature, and Law of God. Boston: James Franklin in Queen-Street, 1772. Evans Digital. Web. 22 Sept. 2011.

Horton, Shaun. “Of Pastors and Petticoats: Humor and Authority in Puritan New England.” The New England Quarterly LXXXII.4 (2009): 608-36. MLA International Bibliography. Web. 23 Sept. 2011.

Kelly, Catherine. In New England Fashion: Reshaping Women’s Lives in the Nineteenth Century. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1999. Print.

Mayer, Ruth. “‘Intollerable Excesse and Bravery’: On Dressing Up in Puritan New England.” Styling Texts: Dress and Fashion in Literature. Ed. Cindy Carlson. Youngstown, NY: Cambria, 2007. 91-110. Print.

Mentor. “General Observations on Fashion in Dress; With Particular Remarks on Certain Female Ornaments.” The Universal Asylum and Columbian Magazine (1790-1792). 1790. American Periodicals. Web. 3 Oct. 2011.

---. “Hints to the Ladies.” Weekly Visitor, or Ladies’ Micellany (1802-1806): 2.63 (1804): 86. American Periodicals. Web. 3 Oct. 2011.

The Miracullous Power of Clothes, and Diginty of the Taylors: Being an Essay on the Words, Clothes Make Men. Translated From the German. Philadelphia: William Mentz in Sterling Alley, 1772. Web. 23 Sept. 2011.

The Origin of the Whale Bone-petticoat. A Satyr. Boston: n.p., 1714. Evans Digital. Web. 23 Sept. 2011.

Stoddard, Solomon. An Answer to Some Cases of Conscience. Boston: Green for Gerrish, 1722. Evans Digital. Web. 6 Oct. 2011.

“To the Editors of the Boston Magazine: Essay on Vanity.” The Boston Magazine, Containing a Collection of Instructive and Entertaining Essays, in the Various Branches of Useful, and Polite Literature 1 (1784): 223. American Periodicals. Web. 23 Sept. 2011.

A Treatise on Dress: Intended as a Friendly and Seasonable Warning to the Daughters of America.  New Haven:  Thomas and Samuel Green, 1783.  Evans Digital. Web.  23 Sept. 2011.

Waterhouse, Harriet. “A Fashionable Confinement: Waleboned Stays and the Pregnant Woman.” Constume, 41 (2007): 53-65. MLA International Bibliography. Web. 6 Oct. 2011.