Journeys in New Worlds: Early American Women's Narratives

by William L. Andrews (Editor), Annette Kolodny (Editor), Daniel B. Shea (Editor), Sargent Bush (Editor), Amy Schrager Lang (Editor)

Overview

Four early American women tell their own stories:  Mary Rowlandson on her capture by Indians in 1676, Boston businesswoman Sarah Kemble Knight on her travels in New England, Elizabeth Ashbridge on her personal odyssey from indentured servant to Quaker preacher, and Elizabeth House Trist, correspondent of Thomas Jefferson, on her travels from Philadelphia to Natchez.  Accompanied by introductions and extensive notes.

"The writings of four hearty women who braved considerable privation and suffering in a wild, uncultivated 17th- and 18th-century America.  Although confined by Old World patriarchy, these women, through their narratives, have endowed the frontier experience with a feminine identity that is generally absent from early American literature."—Publishers Weekly

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780299125837
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	11/21/1990
Series:	Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	3 MB

Table of Contents

Contents
Illustrations
Contributors
Introduction Andrews William L.
A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson Edited, with an Introduction Lang Amy Schrager
The Journal of Madam Knight Edited, with an Introduction Bush, Jr. Sargent
Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge Edited, with an Introduction Shea Daniel B.
The Travel Diary of Elizabeth House Trist: Philadelphia to Natchez, 1783–84 Edited, with an Introduction Kolodny Annette

Editorial Reviews

An anthology of four narratives by women of the 17th and 18th century: Mary Rowlandson's famous account of her captivity by savages, travel diaries from 1704, and 1783-84, and a confession of falling prey to passion and being redeemed. No index or bibliography. Also available in paper (unseen), $10.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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