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

by Catherine Kerrison

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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 bracket a century of change in white southern women's lives. Claiming the Pen offers the first intellectual history of early southern women. It situates their reading and writing within the literary...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0801456789

ISBN13:9780801456787

Release Date:May 2015

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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