Parlor politics : in which the ladies of Washington help build a city and a government

Author(s)

• Allgor, Catherine

Bibliographic Information

Parlor politics : in which the ladies of Washington help build a city and a government

Catherine Allgor

（Jeffersonian America）

University Press of Virginia, 2002, c2000

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-284) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Catherine Allgor describes the various ways genteel elite women during the first decades of the 19th century used ""social events"" and the ""private sphere"" to establish the national capital and to build the extraofficial structures so sorely needed in the infant federal government.

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Details

• NCID: BA60490488
• ISBN:
  • 081392118X
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Charlottesville
• Pages/Volumes: 299 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HQ1236.5.U6
  • DC21 : 305.42/09753/09034
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Women in politics -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Upper class women -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Entertaining -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Washington (D.C.) -- Politics and government -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA45579724