- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Elizabeth Lichtenstein Johnston (1764-1848)
- Creator:
- Marsh, Ben, 1976-
- Publisher:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Date of Original:
- 2005-10-07
- Subject:
- Johnston, Elizabeth Lichtenstein, 1764-1848
Young women--Georgia--Savannah
Authors, American--Georgia--Savannah
Women authors, American--Georgia--Savannah
Georgia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Elizabeth Lichtenstein Johnston. Elizabeth Lichtenstein (or Lightenstone) Johnston was a fervent Loyalist who lived through the upheaval of the American Revolution (1775-83) in Georgia. At the age of seventy-two, she wrote graphic recollections of her experiences, providing the most detailed firsthand account of the ways in which the Revolution affected women in colonial Georgia.
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- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/elizabeth-lichtenstein-johnston-1764-1848/
- Language:
- eng
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- Cite as: "ARTICLE TITLE," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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