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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 ]
The novel was adapted for the stage a number of times, but the best known were by Charles Dance in 1836, which starred actor James Henry Hackett, and a version created in 1856 by Clifton W. Tayleure titled Horseshoe Robinson, or the Battle of King's Mountain, which included William Ellis as Robinson and George C. Boniface as Major Arthur Butler.
The novel that launched his career was The Spy, a tale about espionage set during the American Revolutionary War and published in 1821. [3] He also created American sea stories . His best-known works are five historical novels of the frontier period, written between 1823 and 1841, known as the Leatherstocking Tales , which introduced the iconic ...
The Hornet's Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War is a 2003 novel by Jimmy Carter. It features the American Revolutionary War as fought in the Deep South, and is the first fictional publication by any president of the United States. [1] The New York Times likened Carter's prose to a school teacher delivering a lesson.
[1] [5] [b] Lindley was the author of 11 books and the top selling author in the United States during the first four decades of the nineteenth century. [4] Of Murray's twelve children, five made it to adulthood, [ 7 ] including Lindley, John, Susannah, and Beulah, who were alive at the time of her death.
Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft. New York: St. Martin's, 1992. ISBN 0-312-12904-1. Mellor, Anne K. "Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the women writers of her day". The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft. Ed. Claudia L. Johnson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Chains, written by Laurie Halse Anderson, is the first in the Seeds of America trilogy of young adult historical novels, published in the United States on October 21, 2008. [1] The story follows Isabel, a teenaged African-American slave striving for and her younger sister's freedom during the American Revolutionary War.
April Morning is a 1961 novel by Howard Fast, about Adam Cooper's coming of age during the Battle of Lexington. [1] One critic notes that in the beginning of the novel he is "dressed down by his father, Moses, misunderstood by his mother, Sarah, and plagued by his brother, Levi."