Esther Edwards Burr

Esther Edwards Burr ( born February 13, 1732 in Northampton, Massachusetts, † April 7, 1758 in Princeton, New Jersey) was the daughter of Jonathan Edwards, the great American theologian of his time, the wife of Aaron Burr, Sr., the President of the College of New Jersey and mother of Aaron Burr, Jr., later Vice President of the United States. For the American history and literature is her diary of interest that led them from 1754 to 1757.

Life

Esther Edwards was the third oldest of the eleven children of Jonathan Edwards and his wife Sarah Pierrepont and initially grew up in the town of Northampton, where her father to 1750 held the parish. After a falling out with the church in 1751, the family moved to the frontier settlement at Stockbridge in the far west of Massachusetts. 1752 she married the Presbyterian ministers Aaron Burr, President of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), and had as his wife not only domestic, but also numerous other important duties. She died in 1758, a year after her husband's death and only a month after the death of her father, who had come to Princeton to be Burr's successor as President of the College.

For the American history and literature of importance are their first time in 1901 published diaries, which give many insights into the life of the late colonial period and at the same time are a testament to her literary ambitions. Like the former Journal of Sarah Kemble Knight, it is of particular interest to the women 's and gender studies, as it is one of the few documents written by women of this kind from the colonial era. The majority of their journal is not a diary in the sense of a purely private self- testimony, but as correspondence with another diarist, her childhood friend Sarah Prince in Boston, always apostrophized in the Journal as " Fidelia, " Princes answers were addressed to " Burrissa ".

Editions of the diary

  • Jeremiah Eames Rankin (ed.): Esther Burr 's Journal. Howard University Print, Washington, DC 1901. Digitalisat
  • Carol F. Karlsen, Laurie Crumpacker (ed.): The Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 1754-1757. Yale University Press, New Haven 1984.

Secondary literature

  • Laurie Crumpacker: Esther Burr 's Journal, 1754-1757: A Document of Evangelical Sisterhood. Diss Boston University, 1978.
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