1827

"What Can be Done by a Mother." [New Haven] Religious Intelligencer 12.4 (June 23, 1827): 57-58. An article promoting the recognition of the influence of women "on our personal and national character and happiness." Mothers, for sure, to whom we owe "our mental and moral conformation," but daughters too. "How conspicuous a place in the early history of Virginia, is held by the celebrated Pocahontas, -- throwing herself between the knife of her father Powhattan, and his prostrate captive, Smith? But for the influence of that heroic and affectionate daughter, where now the 'Ancient dominion?'"
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