Question

In her account of unmarried women’s experiences in colonial Philadelphia, Wulf argues that educated young women, particularly Quakers, engaged in resistance to patriarchal marriage by exchanging poetry critical of marriage, copying verse into their commonplace books. Wulf suggests that this critique circulated beyond the daughters of the Quaker elite and middle class, whose commonplace books she mines, proposing that Quaker schools brought it to many poor female students of diverse backgrounds.

Answer 1

Answer: Here wulf overstate Quakers school impact. In the year 1765 student enroll in this schools. Girls for three years were educated in Philadelphia’s Quaker schools. The wide range of marital beliefs among lower class challenged the legitimacy of patriarchal marriage.