Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South by Catherine Kerrison

Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South

Catherine Kerrison

265 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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In 1711, the imperious Virginia patriarch William Byrd II spitefully refused his wife Lucy's plea for a book; a century later, Lady Jean Skipwith placed an order that sent the Virginia bookseller Joseph Swan scurrying to please. These vignettes br...

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