Christine: Or Woman's Trials and Triumphs

When Laura Curtis Bullard wrote the novel Christine in 1856, she created one of antebellum America’s most radical heroines: a woman’s rights leader. Addressing the major social, political, and cultural issues surrounding women from within an unusually overt feminist framework for its time, Christine openly challenges a social and legal system that denies women full and equal rights.

Christine defies her family, rejects marriage, and leaves a job as a teacher to embark on her career, rewriti...