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In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, many women began to write historical analysis, taking a big role in defining the new American Republicanism. The work collected here ranges…
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Sharon M Harris
Evangelist Sharon Marie Harris Your past doesn’t have to define your present, nor determine your future . The Sharon Harris Story is nothing less than a miracle. I was born…
Sharon M. Harris
From the late 1860s until her death in 1910, Rebecca Harding Davis was one of the best-known writers in America. She broke into print as a young woman in the…
In the first book-length biography of Rebecca Harding Davis, Sharon Harris traces the extraordinary life of this pioneering realist and recovers her status as one of America’s notable women journalists…
The Sharon Harris Story is a miracle. Born in the inner city of South Central, Los Angeles, Sharon was working full-time, living with a drug dealer and mother of 2…
Illustrates the significance of epistolarity as a literary phenomenon intricately interwoven with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century cultural developments. This collection of essays demonstrates the genre’s persistent public engagements with changing cultural…
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An annotated edition of Rebecca Harding Davis’s 1904 autobiography, Bits of Gossip , and a family history written for her children. The memoirs are not traditional autobiography; rather, they present…
An anthology of Davis’ civil war-era work. It explores such issues as racial prejudice and slavery, the loneliness and powerlessness of women, and the effects of postwar market capitalism on…
Judith Sargent Murray
As a novelist, essayist, dramatist, and poet, Judith Sargent Murray asserted her opinions about the social and political conditions of women in late eighteenth-century America. This volume includes selections from…
Mark L. Kamrath
Similar to the digital revolution of the last century, the colonial and early national periods were a time of improved print technologies, exploding information, faster communications, and a fundamental reinventing…
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Reproducing 2500 years of feminist writing across national borders and genres (essays, letters, poems, manifestos), this anthology is at once a reference, resource and revelatory book. Each text is annotated…
Mercy Otis Warren
Revolutionary-era woman writer Mercy Otis Warren, whose works include a three-volume history of the American Revolution as well as plays and poems, was a major literary figure of her era…
