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Pride and pleasure : the Schuyler sisters in an age of revolution /

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Angelica and Elizabeth Schuyler, born to wealth and privilege in New York's Hudson Valley during the latter half of the eighteenth century, were raised to make good marriages and supervise substantial households. Instead they became embroiled in the turmoil of America's insurrection agains...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vaill, Amanda (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2025].
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Church, Angelica Schuyler, > 1756-1815.
Hamilton, Elizabeth Schuyler, > 1757-1854.
Van Rensselaer, Margarita, > 1758-1801.
Schuyler family.
Sisters > United States > Biography.
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783.
New York (State) > History > Revolution, 1775-1783.
New York (State) > Biography.
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Women.
HISTORY / United States / General.
Table of Contents:
  • A note on method
  • Prologue
  • Part I: Pride
  • A careless, good-humored young man
  • Left to nature
  • The plantation and the pastures
  • Fine, sprightly, sensible girls
  • "We will serve our country"
  • So agreeable an acquaintance
  • A distressing situation
  • An unexpected blessing
  • A sort of insanity
  • A very serious thing
  • Part II: Pleasure
  • "So, we part"
  • Precarious happiness
  • "The way to get him"
  • Promises and resolutions
  • "A most excellent manager"
  • A path strewed with roses
  • Aquileia
  • Love and rivalship
  • Truly at sea
  • "It'll be fine"
  • The sharpest thorns
  • "The risk of my life"
  • The minister and the man
  • The approbation of the good and considerate
  • The needle and the hole
  • Near the sun
  • Strategies and tactics
  • The important change
  • Refuge in a garden
  • The unavoidable interview
  • Part III: Nameless satisfactions
  • "My hounded heart"
  • "The present state of our former coterie"
  • All my doubts and all my fears
  • The oratrix
  • "Our favorite subject
  • The little red hen
  • "The most interesting business of my protracted life."