"Pennsylvania Dutch," and other essays
(PROPERLY GERMAN.)
“PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH,” AND OTHER ESSAYS.
BY PHEBE EARLE GIBBONS, AUTHOR OF “FRENCH AND BELGIANS.”
THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED.
PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. 1882.
Copyright, 1882, by Phebe Earle Gibbons.
The leading article in this collection appeared, as first published, in the Atlantic Monthly in October, 1869. After this essay was written I became better acquainted with our plain German sects, and wrote articles describing them, which were published in the first edition of this book. It appeared in 1872.
Phebe Earle Gibbons
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“PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH.”
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
LANGUAGE.
RELIGION.
HISTORY OF A SECT.
POLITICS.
FESTIVALS.
WEDDINGS.
QUILTINGS.
“SINGINGS.”
FARMING.
FARMERS’ WIVES.
HOLIDAYS.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
SWISS EXILES.
THE DUNKER LOVE-FEAST.
EPHRATA.
BETHLEHEM AND THE MORAVIANS.
FESTIVALS.
THE GRAVEYARD.
OLD RECOLLECTIONS.
OLD BUILDINGS.
MISCELLANEOUS REMARKS.
SCHWENKFELDERS.
MEETING-HOUSE AND GRAVEYARD.
BOOKS.
HISTORY.
THE JOURNEY TO AMERICA.
THE ANNIVERSARY OR YEARLY MEETING.
CUSTOMS.
DOCTRINES.
A FRIEND.
COUSIN JEMIMA.
THE MINERS OF SCRANTON.
IRISH FARMERS.
ENGLISH.
FARMS AND FARMERS.
THE CHURCH AND THE RECTOR.
DISSENTERS.
TAXES AND TITHES.
SCHOOLS.
MISCELLANEOUS.
PECULIARITIES OF SPEECH.
PROPER NAMES.
POLITICS.
YANKEES.
THRIFT.
CHARMS AND SUPERSTITIONS.
MEDICAL SUPERSTITIONS.
HOLIDAYS—EASTER.
THE PLAINER SECTS.
THE PEOPLE CONTRASTED.
MISCELLANEOUS.
FOOTNOTES
Язык
Английский
Год издания
2021-09-12
Темы
Pennsylvania Dutch; Pennsylvania -- Social life and customs; Church of the Brethren. Middle Pennsylvania District; Ethnology -- Pennsylvania; Country life -- Pennsylvania; Moravians -- Pennsylvania; Schwenkfelders -- Pennsylvania; Immigrants -- Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania -- Ethnic relations