Catherine La Courreye Blecki and Karin A. Wulf, eds., Milcah Martha Moore’s Book: A Commonplace Book from Revolutionary America (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997). This is an edition of Moore’s commonplace book, which includes poetry and prose that she copied in the mid- to late eighteenth century. It includes the overtly political work of Hannah Griffitts, as well as other women writers such as the famous “bluestocking of the Susquehanna,” Susanna Wright. This material gives you more examples to work with, and its thorough annotations direct you to the many references within the writing.

Elaine Crane, The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker: The Life Cycle of an Eighteenth-Century Woman (University Park: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010). Selections from the lengthy diary of Hannah Callender’s friend, mentioned in Callender’s diary entries. These selections emphasize the significance of life events including marriage and children, which so defined many women’s experiences.

Mary Kelley, Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America’s Republic (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006). Kelley examines the growth of women’s academies in the period after the Revolution and the ways in which enhanced education gave women experience and confidence to enter the public sphere.

Catherine Kerrison, Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006). Kerrison gives important background on the women and settings in the early South that, although much less extensive than in northern cities such as Philadelphia, were key to women’s intellectual development.

Susan Klepp and Karin Wulf, eds., The Diary of Hannah Callender Sansom: Sense and Sensibility in the Age of the American Revolution (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010). The complete transcription of Callender’s diary, with interpretive chapters on sociability, reading, and family. This material gives a fuller sense of Callender’s life and the world of eighteenth-century Philadelphia.