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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 ]
Jane McCrea was born in Bedminster, New Jersey, one of the younger children in the large family of Rev. James McCrea. [1] After her mother died and her father remarried, McCrea moved in with her brother John who lived near Saratoga, New York, where she eventually became engaged to David Jones. [2]
Partly in response to Smith, [10] and drawing on that Revolutionary War research, [11] Neal wrote the first draft of Brother Jonathan while sailing across the Atlantic. [12] The working title was The Yankee , [ 13 ] and he intended it to be a major work [ 14 ] that would expand his recognition as a significant novelist beyond the US and into ...
Elizabeth Fries Ellet (née Lummis; October 18, 1818 – June 3, 1877) was an American writer, historian and poet. She was the first writer to record the lives of women who contributed to the American Revolutionary War.
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]
The novel mixes fictional characters with historical events and figures, to narrate the story of the nascent United States of America during the time of the American Revolution. While the novel continues the story of Philip Kent, started in The Bastard , a large portion focuses on Judson Fletcher, a newly introduced character, as a different rebel.
From the fight for women’s suffrage to a call to end violence against women, for social justice and equality, to the more recent #MeToo movement against sexual predators, women have spearheaded ...
Peggy is a 1970 historical novel by Lois Duncan. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a semi-fictionalized account of the life of Peggy Shippen , the second wife of General Benedict Arnold , a prominent figure in Philadelphia after the American Revolutionary War .