The Respectability of Rebecca Reed
Genteel Womanhood and Sectarian Conflict in Antebellum America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11675256 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel A Cohen, Daniel Cohen (0000-0001-8227-0909, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 419-419 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Early Republic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0275-1275 • E-ISSN: 1553-0620 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3124058 |
| OpenAlex | W2328937823 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Until now Rebecca Reed has figured as one of the more disreputable villains in the annals of American religious intolerance. The daughter of a poor Protestant farmer from Charlestown, Massachusetts, Reed converted to Roman Catholicism in June 1831, at the age of nineteen, and entered an Ursuline convent in her hometown as either a postulant or a student in August or September of that year. But she became unhappy after only a few months, left the institution in January 1832, and began telling friends and neighbors about various
Political science · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Gender Studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2006 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |