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  2. Charlotte Temple - Wikipedia

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    The seduction novel genre, of which Charlotte Temple is a part, grew in popularity after the American Revolutionary War. The American Revolution simultaneously gave women more opportunities and agency whilst highlighting the “feminine weakness, delicacy and incapacity”. [ 16 ]

  3. Women in the American Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Women in the American Revolution played various roles depending on their social status, race and political views. The American Revolutionary War took place as a result of increasing tensions between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies. American colonists responded by forming the Continental Congress and going to war with the British. The ...

  4. Johnny Tremain - Wikipedia

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    Johnny Tremain is a work of historical fiction written in 1943 by Esther Forbes that is set in Boston prior to and during the outbreak of the American Revolution.Intended for teen-aged readers, the novel's themes include apprenticeship, courtship, sacrifice, human rights, and the growing tension between Patriots and Loyalists as conflict nears.

  5. Mary Hays - Wikipedia

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    Mary Hays (1759–1843) was an autodidact intellectual who published essays, poetry, novels and several works on famous (and infamous) women. She is remembered for her early feminism, and her close relations to dissenting and radical thinkers of her time including Robert Robinson, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin and William Frend. [1]

  6. Category : Novels set during the American Revolutionary War

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    Pages in category "Novels set during the American Revolutionary War" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  7. Susanna Rowson - Wikipedia

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    She was the first woman geographer and an early supporter of female education. She also wrote against slavery. Rowson was the author of the 1791 novel Charlotte Temple , the most popular best-seller in American literature until Harriet Beecher Stowe 's Uncle Tom's Cabin was published serially in 1851–1852, and authored the first human ...

  8. James Boyd (novelist) - Wikipedia

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    After World War I, he experienced ill health, and retired to Weymouth, a house his grandfather built in Southern Pines, North Carolina. [2] The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [3] Boyd's first book, Drums, was set in Edenton, North Carolina, and has been called the best novel written about the American ...

  9. Elizabeth F. Ellet - Wikipedia

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    She was the first writer to record the lives of women who contributed to the American Revolutionary War. [1] Born Elizabeth Fries Lummis, in New York, she published her first book, Poems, Translated and Original, in 1835. She married the chemist William Henry Ellet and the couple moved to South Carolina.

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