The Women of the House: How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty by Jean Zimmerman

The Women of the House: How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty

Jean Zimmerman

400 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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The remarkable Margaret Hardenbroeck Philipse arrived in New Amsterdam from Holland in 1659, a brash and ambitious twenty-two-year-old bent on making her way in the New World. She promptly built an empire of trading ships, furs, and real estate th...

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